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Alexander Haig commanded U.S. troops in Korea and Viet Nam, but perhaps his toughest tests under fire came as Richard Nixon's last White House chief of staff and Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State. Haig, who has long nurtured presidential ambitions, once noted privately that the State Department was ill suited as a stepping-stone to the White House. "You come out bruised and scarred," he observed before his nomination as Secretary of State. Sure enough, by the time Reagan fired him in mid-1982, Haig was covered with contusions from bureaucratic brawls...
...mentality of untrammeled capitalism was a virtue in the culture of Reaganism. Now that culture is being questioned. The Rambo story, which was a cartoon of Reaganism's individualist machismo, has been discredited by the escapades of Oliver North. The enduring ghost of Viet Nam returns not in the cretinous revenge fantasies of Sylvester Stallone but in Platoon, a movie that confronts the ambiguous mess and tragedy of America's mission in Viet Nam. The show that has captured Broadway is Les Miserables, with its themes of suffering and redemption, and the injunction "Look down!" -- meaning look down upon...
...next few years will be groping toward a new definition of itself. Now a new generation comes to power. Those marked by the formative experiences of the Depression and by World War II will leave the stage. The generation of the baby boom, which was formed by the Viet Nam era, will begin taking over...
...onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under a citizen's arrest,' not knowing exactly what that meant, and the students fled." The incident...
Gonna: Oliver Stone, Platoon. Because Best Picture and Best Director are peanut butter and jelly. Here's a preview of Stone's acceptance speech: "I'd just like to thank...boo hoo hoo...all those kids who...boo hoo hoo...in the Big 'Nam. This one's for you, dudes! Take no prisoners...