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...latest issue, American Enterprise reports that huge majorities in every G-7 country but one -- Japan, surprisingly -- express unhappiness with the direction their nations are taking: 71% in the U.S., 70% in Canada, 63% in Britain, 61% in France. The surveys bear out a growing sense that electorates see their leaders not as temporarily lost pathfinders so much as empty suits. Deriding the gallery of statesmen manque he saw before him, columnist Norman Stone of the Times of London quoted Nietzsche: "I sowed dragons and I reaped fleas...
...Angeles basin, where I grew up, it's also a little disconcerting. Watching hockey played in the streets, parking lots and park rinks of L.A. is, I imagine, more than a little bit like finding a polar bear on the surface...
...outside journalists risk not getting the full story when they just talk to me. But I also bear a risk. I'm supposed to be a fair, openminded journalist. Spouting my opinions about campus politics, or even simply revealing my analysis or conception of the current scene, may end up somehow indirectly flavoring the news itself, as Crimson readers...
...plan to name Bruce Babbitt to the Supreme Court when environmentalists complained that they would be losing their key ally at the Interior Department. When Robert Dole of Kansas and Orrin Hatch of Utah objected to Babbitt's lack of courtroom experience, it was more flak than Clinton could bear...
After a year of the most intensive search ever mounted to detect radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, have picked up 164 signals -- out of 30 trillion recorded -- that "bear further investigation." This doesn't mean that E.T.s have been found, only that these anomalies have not yet been otherwise explained...