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...partly because of the great voids this time. Among them: the lack of visceral issues to shape the campaign, the absence of a commanding personality on either ticket, and the fuzziness of the national mood on both economic and foreign policy issues. In this environment, small tactics and forced errors can have a large impact. Experts in offensive gambits and defensive damage control are indispensable. With no margin for error, the danger of a gaffe, a mistake that will reveal too much, induces a crippling level of scripted caution. After the feel-good placebo of the Reagan years, neither Bush...
Tuchman's view of history is gravely classical. She is a tragedian who mounts the past against the fixed backdrop of human nature. Reason and goodwill exist but are like the stars in the heavens: flashes of enlightenment separated by vast expanses of darkness. "Halfway 'between truth and endless error,' " she concludes, "the mold of the species is permanent...
Mike Greenwell then hit a grounder to the right of first baseman Terry Francona, who let the ball glance off the tip of his glove for a run-scoring error. Todd Benzinger drove in another run with a single to right, and Burks followed with a bases-clearing line drive to the gap in left center that made...
...stumbled again as Jimmy Key pitched a two-hitter and the Blue Jays parlayed catcher Rich Gedman's error into an unearned run in the eighth inning and a three-game sweep. Bruce Hurst lost despite a five-hitter...
Thomas Jefferson had the right formula for governance when he wrote that "reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error." Apparently, the words of the architect of democracy have little connection with Harvard; how can the Board fairly review the administration's decisions if it is chosen by that administration...