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...Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from California's outgoing Republican Governor George Deukmejian and to lay at least some conservative claim to the issue. Insists Wilson strategist Otto Bos, with etymological aplomb: "The words conservation and conservative, after all, stem from the same root...
...Peterson (H), 9:25.66; 2. Ken Johnson, (H), 9:29.42: 3. Steve Root...
...would point out that the root of the word conservative is the same as the root of the word conservationist," he adds...
...that by speaking out, my action "only reinforces the vicious stereotype of homosexuals as depraved." It seems we get too big for our breeches when we gays name a violence to which we have historically been subjected (not the violence of the arrest but the homophobia at its root), and that, more suitable and advantageous to our cause would be silence. Or perhaps we should have voiced our opinions apologetically. Would this dissociate the Harvard gay community far enough from Those Men in the Bathroom to leave our cause intact...
Until the mid-'80s, the root cause of East-West tension -- the repressive, predatory nature of Soviet communism -- was nonnegotiable. The old men in the Kremlin refused to brook "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R.," and they would not accept meaningful constraints on Soviet international behavior. That left little to talk about, except how many warheads should be allowed to dance on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile...