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Once ignited, a sense of optimism (like pessimism) can be self-fulfilling: the U.S. has cheered up partly because enough Americans willed such a change. It is the power of positive thinking writ large. "Magic takes over from reason at such times," wrote Author Gail Sheehy last month in a paean to the new mood. Christopher Reed, writing more acidly about the Olympics for Britain's weekly Spectator, found Americans "feeling proud about their pride." Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion? When it comes to a subject as ineffable as the mood...
...country that was founded as a Jewish homeland best govern itself, by parliamentary law or through a minority's interpretation of holy writ...
...knocked down to reduce the risk of ambush. How can the Israelis work their way out of the quagmire? "We are trying to reduce our presence here to the minimal level," Chief of Staff Levy said last week. Ideally, the Israelis would like the Lebanese government to extend its writ to the south. But the Lebanese army, bogged down in renewed fighting in Beirut and the nearby Chouf Mountains, is not strong enough to undertake such a task. The Israelis continue to support the 1,000-man Free Lebanon Forces, the militia that was led by Major Saad Haddad until...
...catches precisely the cosmic dimension of the Pope's forgiving act. When all the Caesar-vs.-God distinctions have been made, when all the private morality-vj.-public policy nuances have been noted, the fundamental truth remains. Plato put it well when he described the state as "man writ large...
...self-confident she is today." TIME's Frank Melville who reported on the election's foreign, defense and economic is sues agrees. In talking to ministers and senior officials, I was struck by the extraordinary dominance Thatcher has established in almost every area of government. Her writ runs supreme like that of no Prime Minister since Winston Churchill...