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...very limited ability to affect their surroundings; the unconstrained vision sees people being guided by reason and always able to improve things. To put it another way, the unconstrained see human beings as perfectible, the constrained as forever flawed. The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson, seeks solutions. "The constrained vision is a tragic vision of the human condition," Sowell writes. "The unconstrained vision is a moral vision of human intentions...
...right-wing Republican, Mecham outraged civil rights leaders by rescinding the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Said Arizona House Minority Leader Art Hamilton, the state's most powerful black: "Mecham seems to have slept through the last 30 years of America." His appointments have infuriated opponents. The new head of the state liquor department is being investigated in connection with a 1954 killing. It turned out that Mecham's choice for a state investigator's post had been court-martialed twice while in the Marines. The new state education adviser stunned residents by proclaiming that teachers had no business...
...Hamilton Jordan, President Carter's chief of staff and a top Democratic politician, said the Iran-Contra affair will have a major impact on the Republican slate in the 1988 elections...
These former officials, along with Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff under President Carter, will also be asked to explain how they handled their own crises while in the White House, Hume said...
...marketing staff and its scholarship fund since 1978. Says U.S.C. Director of Admissions Kathryn Forte: "I don't know where we'd be without the extensive marketing effort we've given to recruiting for the past five or six years." Says Douglas Thompson, dean of admissions at wealthy, selective Hamilton College in upstate New York: "There is a race on. There is a limited pool of students, and we are all competing for and trying to convince them we are the best place to come...