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...bleak, he never degenerates into spite. The approach is factual and dispassionate, the work detailed and well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...
...Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...
...teacher, though he has his share of detractors. Alluding to the professor's well-developed ego, one former student complains: "The course name should be changed from 'Criminal Law' to 'Alan Dershowitz-This Is Your Life.'" Dershowitz has also produced a broad array of legal writing, showing a special interest in psychiatry and law, though his work is not universally acclaimed. Says the dean of another law school: "It is more popular than scholarly...
...severity of the current recession was written in red across scores of first-quarter corporate earnings reports last week. Beset by sagging sales and oppressive interest rates, companies in a broad array of industries, from autos and airlines to steel and even oil, posted sharp profit declines or outright losses...
...part of a wave of young and progressive big-city mayors that included New York's John Lindsay and Cleveland's Cart Stokes, he worked hard to change that. He developed an innovative program of "little city halls" designed to increase communication between neighborhoods and city government. With the array of grassroots public interest organizations around today, it's hard to imagine the effect White's approach had. The early years of his tenure were a time of refreshing change, a dose of sincere urban populism...