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...fascinating phenomena of power to watch the adrenalin build even as the flesh wants to sag. An aide going over the final version of the speech with Reagan was suddenly struck by the fact that this 70-year-old man "was enjoying the job of being President far more than he thought he would." The observer mused to himself that "few men get this special sense of satisfaction in their lives, the chance to do what they have been thinking and talking about for so long." Time and time again, in making decisions on budget and tax cuts, in giving...
...Budget Director David Stockman first floated the idea of drastic foreign aid cuts, Secretary of State Alexander Haig reacted like a challenged general. A diplomatic compromise was soon reached: a 26% cut, down to a $4.8 billion 1982 outlay. "I am not going to pretend the cuts were a flesh wound," says State Department Spokesman William Dyess. "There was bleeding, but we support the cuts." Strategically important commitments to Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan Administration...
...Definitive," remarks Commentary Editor Robert Alter, "except for the omission of a computerized convector-current olfactory unit to waft about in seven pre-sequenced patterns the odor of rotten bread, potato peels and scorched flesh...
...homosexual love as aberrent behavior. Still, there is an attraction to homosexuality--most who share in it would call it perverse, while admitting to it nonetheless--the thought of what the other way must feel like, the curious reviling of the opposite sex and almost narcissistic indulgence in the flesh of your own: it can grate on libidos and unhinge nagging emotions of doubt and longing. Straight is cool, of course, but the other path has yet to be explored...
...create homosexuals as they are? But such an attempt must overcome a hoary stumbling-block of philosophical disputation--the problem of free will versus necessity. A view that sees sexual preferences as determined by the omnipotent creator absolves the guilt and blame attached to homosexuality: all human flesh then fits into the natural order of His creation. But this theological determinism deprives us of our moral worth as human beings--for we have no hand in the choice. Such a different conception of God and the universe removes any chance for the play of earthly powers to intervene...