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...success. While this fact offends our notion of fairness, it is a truth that should not be covered over by the rubric of "diversity" or psychologized to the point of paralysis. The ideology of victimhood proves fatal to its victims if it is not quickly converted into a concept of self discipline and personal virtue. If anything, we need to cultivate a larger sphere in which individual responsibility and merit are unconditionally demanded and respected...
...truth is that Washington has never arrived at a firm concept of what kind of Yugoslavia it wants to see emerge from the wreckage of war. In the past, the Administration has been willing to agree to anything the Serbs, Muslims and Croats might all be pushed into accepting. That now looks like a hopeless effort, and Clinton will have to do better before he announces -- and wins support for -- the next chapter in his Bosnian policy. "The strong options depend on only one person," said a State Department official. The President does not need any more briefings or position...
...reached Broadway when it appeared as a concept album and gave birth to the rock opera in 1969, or even when it was filmed as a surreal fantasia by Ken Russell in 1975, Tommy might have had epic impact on the history of the musical. Rock is the mainstream sound of our era, and the theater is long overdue in making peace with that. Instead, a gloriously hyperkinetic staging arrives, a quarter century late, as nostalgia...
...biggest worry. They are going to do anything absolutely necessary to keep their golden market." Though Nissan demurs that its own nickel-cadmium model is not quite ready for prime time, it has already produced the first advertising slogan of the new electric age, describing its FEV concept car as "gentle to people, gentle to society, gentle to Earth...
...armed services as their only hope. Military jobs often serve as the only alternative to a monthly welfare check, the only way out for young people coming from bad schools and poor homes. These individuals are often intolerant of those unlike themselves, and open hostility is not a foreign concept to them--violence was often a part of their youths. Thus we come to have a military which is an extremely hostile environment for homosexuals. General Powell realizes the extent of this hostility--the kind of hostility that has at times led to murder--and has based his opinions concerning...