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Though aspirations and methods have been adjusted to the realities of the 1980s, the passion for hegemony lives on in Damascus. Under the shrewd, ruthless, brutally dictatorial guidance of President Hafez Assad, 53, Syria has been making a bid for the past decade to grasp the torch of Arab unity...
If an organic center does not exist, what is to be done? The American answer seems to be: build a synthetic one. The can-do country (its creations include synthetic rubber, artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by...
As the power of the press has shifted from local newspapers to national networks, the public seemingly has added the news business to the list of remote institutions that it mistrusts simply because of their size. Says Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires: "The press used to be something accessible, owned...
Leonard's retirement last year was prompted by a detached retina he suffered in training, but dread of Hagler was thought to be at least a secondary consideration. A Hagler sampler: "Don't play with them, bust them up." No one could blame Hagler for the shortage of...
"Physicists have always felt they had a special connection to nuclear weapons,' said Krauss, who serves as the petition coordinator for the Boston area. "It was felt that if an international group of eminent physicists pointed out their objections, it would bear more weight on current debates."