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...harrowing anecdotes are told with apparent amusement that makes them all the scarier. The group leader recalls falling into the men's movement as a scam after a sexual-harassment case ended his college teaching career. Wendt depicts, with Normesque what-the-hey gestures and overstuffed teddy-bear charm, how he plunged far beyond his means to display machismo to fellow traders in the pit. These men clearly ought to be in search of something. But they can't see the forest or the trees...
...easy to preserve your integrity in opposition, and tempting to hoard it by remaining in opposition under any circumstance. Scarier and indeed riskier is engaging your integrity by investing hope in flawed politicians operating in an imperfect world. The cheap pleasures of cynicism are always in plentiful supply. Abandoning them is like going on a diet or giving up smoking. Hope, in other words, is the thing that takes work...
...West fails to bring peace to Bosnia, Serbian power will roll over the Muslims, parts of Croatia and the last hope of Albanian freedom in Kosovo. That's just the moral side of the problem.. The practical side is even scarier. If Bosnian turmoil continues, angry Muslim countries might send arms and probably soldiers to their fellow Muslims, where-upon resentful Russians will doubtless do the same for their fellow Slavs, the Serbs...
...talk about "the December scenario." The opening act will take place during the Congress of People's Deputies that begins this week. Yeltsin's opponents are expected to launch an all-out offensive to restrict his personal authority, reverse his main policies and remove his key ministers. In the scarier versions of the scenario, the maneuvers against the Russian government could be a prelude to a parliamentary upheaval or even a putsch...
Carter was an even scarier prospect. It wasn't the hostages in Iran that got to me. It was the fact that he was nuclear physicist. Living within the evacuation zone of Three Mile Island, which had come to a near meltdown a little over a year before the election, convinced me that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three...