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...immoral to begin with, that the deed which precipitates a conflict becomes by far the most significant event. Some have blamed the United States for discriminatory economic practices against the Japanese during the 1930's and have said this policy led to W.W. II. But the bombing of Pearl Harbor was such a leap from hardball diplomacy it made the personal decision to fight, let alone the national one, simple...
...Each area of the neighborhood has its own light. On the older residential streets, the lights in the houses are modest, like candle glow, except where someone has decided to explode with the season and Christmas lights engulf a house to the extent that no house shows. At the harbor, the late day brings almost total darkness; the lights are on the water in the windows of the boats...
Right now, times are bad. Sales are slow, and the hardest hit model is the top-of-the-line 928. Young is doing the once unthinkable: cutting prices. Yet he knows that many of his would-be customers harbor hopes of becoming the latest in a string of entrepreneurs who have made millions by inventing a better microchip. Nobody wants to believe that the fabled region's heydays are gone forever. Says Young: "If the headlines are good for three or four days running and people are feeling optimistic, business picks right up. It's good for at least...
...membership, students are accepting a status quo that runs counter to fundamental American values. It is hard to understand how these clubs can continue to exhibit their moral backwardness while the college continues to open doors on many issues. It is hard to see the justice in the clubs' harbor cruises and estate outings while other students are working to improve conditions at public housing projects or battered women shelters...
...issue where both sides remain adamant: SDI. The threat of an American strategic defense system probably had a lot to do with Moscow's readiness to return to the bargaining table and discuss the deep missile cuts it had hitherto rejected out of hand. Some in the Administration still harbor hopes that Star Wars might be the ultimate bargaining chip. Without some flexibility on SDI down the road, it could instead become the ultimate stumbling block, the issue that causes the Soviets to act on their hints that they might, once again, walk away from the bargaining table...