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...struggle with conservative lawmakers to abide by Russia's Soviet-era constitution while he pushed the go-slow parliament to adopt free-market changes. At times he came perilously close to overstepping the law. But he always beat a retreat, fearing that any challenge to the lawful order might destroy the state...
...said that neither patients nor doctors will have the choice of smallscale, non-HMO practices. "Managed competition will destroy the pieces of the American health system that do work," Woolhandler said...
...prime backer, the U.S. But those governments will be able to reply convincingly that the fundamentalists are being more Palestinian than Arafat; any deal good enough for the P.L.O. should be good enough for the rest. Fundamentalist Iran and outlaw Iraq doubtless will do everything they can to destroy the budding peace, but that could just drive them further into isolation...
...more. In a misguided business decision that may be remembered as the sporting world's answer to the 1985 roll-out of the new Coke, the major-league owners voted last week, 27-1, to cheapen, if not destroy, all future September pennant races. Beginning next year, both the American and the National leagues will be divided into three -- rather than the existing two -- divisions. To create an additional, ersatz round of league play-offs as an offering unto the Gods of Television (ABC and NBC, who will split the postseason telecasts), the owners agreed to let losers stumble into...
...rational self-interests only gain the upper hand when one side has worn out its ardor in denying the other side's humanity. That time comes when people understand that their malevolent dreams cannot be realized: neither Israel nor the P.L.O. can destroy each other. Or that moment arrives when two groups realize they do not have the wherewithal to defeat each other but can actually become stronger if they combine resources. South African whites cannot suppress the blacks without exacting a death toll they cannot tolerate; neither can the blacks shoot their way to power. By joining hands...