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...operations. That attitude is reinforced by missions that are not clearly articulated and by operations that are poorly executed. "We see Pentagon requests for the most complicated of systems," says New York Congressman Charles Schumer, a member of the Budget Committee. "Yet so often when our military has to function in the real world, they're unable to get the job done." The Kuwaiti reflagging is particularly worrisome to many Congressmen because the Administration seems to have stumbled into an open-ended commitment. Senator Bumpers is part of a bipartisan group that has introduced legislation requiring that the reflagging...
...more basic questions about responsibility have become even more troubling. The Iranian arms deals and covert contra supply operations, dubious enough on their own, were part of a larger, even more insidious pattern: the establishment of a runaway foreign policy that relied on lies and deceptions to function outside the rule of law. Could the buck for such an apparatus really have stopped with John Poindexter...
...Dukakis stood with his exhausted 18- year-old daughter Kara on the airport tarmac in Dallas. For the first time all day, the candidate noticed that Kara was teetering on high heels. "Why do you wear those foolish shoes?" he asked, baffled that his child would choose fashion over function. "Why don't you wear running shoes or something sensible like that...
...spaciousness of Berri's style is, of course, old-fashioned, so much so that it strikes us with the force of something new. But its most important function is to link his work with two currently disused narrative traditions. One is that of the naturalistic novel, which insists on locating characters within a detailed rendering of their world, forcing the reader to recognize that the seemingly minor incidents of life reveal the workings of vast, elemental forces. The other, astonishingly enough, is Greek drama, in which the psychological intimacy among characters is irrelevant, since their destinies are determined...
...separated to preserve liberties. But separation can also destroy liberties," writes Louis Fisher, a specialist in American national government in the Library of Congress. "The framers of the American Constitution did not want a political system so fragmented in structure, so divided in authority, that Government could not function...