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...copies, many on Smiley's barnstorming tour of African-American congregations around the U.S. Each revival-like meeting has drawn hundreds--in some cities, thousands--with many in the audience buying armloads of books to give to friends and relatives. The book is a nonpartisan agenda for black progress. Its prescriptions range from the individual-- "Invest in a home computer"--to the societal--"Strengthen the Voting Rights Act." The Covenant's success may have surprised the publishing world but not Smiley, who says, "There is a hunger and a thirst on the part of black people for leadership--a blueprint...
Still, the system is riddled with privileges for the politically well connected, leaving the majority of Dominicans eking out a living in the underpaid informal sector. Spending on health and education is anemic, even by regional standards, and the rule of law is a work in progress. An unusually candid recent United Nations Development Program report torched the country's élites for being out for themselves with no sense of the commonweal...
...with that, the Pentagon chief began to tap dance. His reply, according to a Republican Senator in the room, was a classic Rumsfeldian fugue--complete with interesting hand gestures--mentioning reductions and foreign troops and steady progress. Or, as the G.O.P. Senator described it later, "it was a five-minute, total nonanswer, just unbelievably obtuse." Another Republican Senator put it this way to TIME: "Rumsfeld believes in his own magic...
...improvement, and we welcome anything that will better inform admissions on what type of person is likely to contribute to the Harvard community. But this information must be used with caution. Proctors vary in quality and are being asked to pass on profoundly subjective reports on students’ progress. Comments that students are “self-centered,” for example, are probably not as helpful as concrete feedback about their involvement in campus activities. Information about said groups should also be treated with skepticism until it can be proved to be evidence of causation rather than...
...then she and her prince went their separate ways, and her story grew more fascinating still. Diana alone became a work in progress, an inspiration to every woman anywhere who faced the trauma and challenge of sudden independence. Even those--men as well as women--who did not follow her every zig and zag over the past few years found themselves weeping last week. We have some sense of what she was, but we will never know what she might have become...