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...doesn't help that Greenspan is now caught in the partisan warfare over Social Security privatization and the budget deficit. His credibility is being challenged by the likes of Senate minority leader Harry Reid, who in March called him "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington." Just last week, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Greenspan essentially apologized for providing what Senator Paul Sarbanes called "a green light" for the 2001 tax cuts. "If that is the way it was interpreted, I missed it," Greenspan said of his support. "I did not intend it that...
Bolton faces less partisan accusers as well. Nearly 60 retired diplomats, many of whom served under Republican Presidents, signed a letter to the committee opposing Bolton's confirmation. Frederick Vreeland, a former ambassador to Morocco who worked under Bolton when both were senior State Department officials in the Administration of Bush's father, sent an e-mail obtained by TIME to top committee Democrat Joseph Biden, saying Bolton "dealt with visitors to his office as if they were servants with whom he could be dismissive, curt and negative...
Throughout the U.S., hundreds of groups held their own memorials last week for the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and, three days later, Nagasaki. While speakers at many of the rallies echoed Araki's agenda, for the most part they avoided both partisan rhetoric and talk of disarmament. Like the Hiroshima service, which used doves to make its point, many of the American commemoratives made use of simple symbols to underscore mankind's vulnerability to nuclear weapons. The displays were frail and mute, but they managed to express deep fears for the survival of the race, which the language of policy...
This one came close to that. "I'm a Hermann German," proclaimed a large button pinned to a medium-size woman waving from a small platform as the World Series Special pulled into Hermann, Mo. She was the only absolute partisan spotted in a week. Across the state, everyone decked out in red or blue appeared to have either a touch or at least a tolerance of the other color. More than gracious, St. Louis was as fretful as Kansas City for the well-being of Third Baseman George Brett when, near the finish of the fifth game, he went...
...Some of our critics do have litmus tests," complains Rees angrily. "They say that no matter how well qualified a candidate is, he can't be a judge if he shares President Reagan's opinion of abortion or affirmative action." The escalation of partisan infighting has begun to worry close observers who take neither side in the fray. Constitutional Scholar Archibald Cox, who was fired as special Watergate prosecutor by President Nixon, fears that politicizing the appointment process endangers something more crucial to the nation than either party's social agenda. He warns, "The idea of judicial independence...