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George Bush followed lockstep in his father's path: prep school, Yale, stalwart of the baseball team, Skull and Bones. Dukakis, on the other hand, broke with the expected pattern, deciding against Harvard in favor of Swarthmore, a small Quaker college near Philadelphia. A D in physics dissuaded him from studying medicine. Instead, he threw himself into politics, working for the 1951 election of Philadelphia reformist Mayor Joe Clark, his first taste of squeaky-clean government. Dukakis still did not have much of a social life -- no one remembers a steady girlfriend -- and he did not join any fraternities because...
Carlucci indignantly rejects any thought that this pattern is applicable to the U.S. today. It is "ridiculous," he says, "to say that our country cannot afford 5.9%" of gross national product, approximately the current rate for national defense. Yet Congress is reflecting a judgment that gargantuan deficits ($147 billion this year) will eventually cripple the economy. They cannot be significantly reduced without a whack at planned military spending, which constitutes 27% of the entire budget...
Unlike his predecessors, Roemer is using his new clout to dismantle the pattern of extravagant patronage and spending programs that made Louisiana seem as profligate as a Cajun on an old-time oil-patch payday. The Roemer Revolution is a drastic effort to restore solvency to a state that is, in Treasurer Mary Landrieu's words, "flat broke." In fact, it is worse than broke: it faces a deficit of $1.3 billion. Roemer proposes to reduce the state's historic dependence on oil and energy revenues. Already, the tax-shy legislature has earmarked a 1 cents sales-tax increase...
...frightening bumper sticker slogan was born, characteristic of an attitude arising from the stultifying pattern of major events coming from and leading to nowhere. Kurt Vonnegut's deadening commentary on Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five "So it goes," was transposed into: "Shit happens...
...aspiriation to professions usually comes before the aspiration to pure scholarship," says Vendler of the pattern to create a minority middle class. But now, Blacks and Hispanics have begun to establish a middle class and can afford to venture into teaching, she says. "I would think there is a large enough Black middle class that their children can be scholars...