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The president's remark may appear appropriate to the occasion. Comments like these, however, fuel idealistic expectations that will never be fulfilled. Sadly, arms control is but a tiny step on "the path to peace and safety." Reagan, who has repeatedly stressed his "realistic" outlook on the "Evil Empire" in...
As the 13th Congress of the 46 million-member Chinese Communist Party officially opened last week, the contrast between the energetic reformer and the enfeebled conservative was starkly symbolic. The party conclave, the first since 1982, had long been seen as a watershed event, the meeting at which Deng would...
It was naturally to the White House, however, that Americans turned. At a time when the global economy was vibrating violently, a sense of panic from + down deep in the infantile reaches of the psyche rose to the surface. People wanted a sign from Daddy that someone was in charge...
Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent for NPR, said she interviewed "at least a half dozen of his friends and colleagues who saw him smoking marijuana when he was a professor at Harvard Law School in the 1970s and perhaps in the early 1980s. He on occasion brought the marijuana."
1 cf. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968). On occasion, Huntington has extended this argument to the United States, suggesting that a little less "excess of democracy" would cure the distemper of the American body politic. Huntington, "The United States," in Michael Crozier, Samuel...