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...insensitive guy trying to impress a woman? Yes: the prattle of a sensitive guy. Surely you've overheard this banter in parks and restaurants. The fellow pontificates on the mystery of love, quotes from the Lake poets, shares the most fragile intimacies. And lurking inside his earnestness is this tacit question: "So-now that I've proved what a refined soul I am-can we have...
...great fear of democratic politicians is that Russia's fledgling institutions of free government are too fragile to withstand a draining, divisive war. Yeltsin and his onetime democratic allies are already increasingly isolated and on the defensive against the tacit "red-brown" alliance of communists and ultranationalists. If democratic forces now become wholly estranged from the President, the odds increase that military factions disgruntled with Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis might stage a long- predicted military coup, neatly disguised as a necessary crackdown to prosecute the war. But the army itself is also divided; some officers far higher...
...teaming up against the Clinton Administration. Neither the Army nor key GOP leaders, Thompson says, want U.S. forces sent to what they see as budget-eating,"rinky-dink" missions to hot spots like Haiti. "The military now knows it has a sympathetic ear in Congress, so there's a tacit alliance already taking shape," he says. And the next Haiti? "It's going to be much, much tougher."Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
Lurking behind the question "What should I read?" is usually a second, tacit one: "And why, while we're on the subject, should I read it?" Coming up with answers has long been the practice and business of literary criticism. But such queries have, in recent years, taken on a snappish edge, not only from attention-span-challenged students of the MTV generation but from a number of grownups whose putative profession is the teaching of literature...
While gays see themselves as fighting for equal rights, opponents often characterize what is at stake as "special rights," a tacit appeal to the backlash generated by affirmative-action programs for blacks and women. Roy Schmidt, city commissioner of Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted this year against an ordinance adding gays to the existing civil rights code. He insists, "I have no problem with the gay community or gay people. My beliefs aren't based on bigotry or ignorance. But you could take it further and say fat people, prostitutes or left-handed people deserve their own protections." Like many people...