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...mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners insist that the scope of Soviet cheating is greater than most other experts con tend; on-site inspection may be the only way finally to resolve the debate...
...Some of them forget that they've had a baby," a social worker says. "They pick up their life at home," leaving a marginal baby in the hospital's care. Some literally do not have bus fare to visit. Nurses tend to get frustrated and move on quickly. "Why don't these parents love their babies?" one asked when she quit recently...
...owns the future? The father of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol, insists that this is the crucial political question of the day, one that will determine who inherits power in America and in the world. What is overlooked is that people tend to decide the answer to that question in the most rational way possible. They ask first: Who owns the past? Liberalism senses that its decline is due to its failure to "seize the future." Whatever that means, if it means anything, forfeiting the past hardly seems the wisest way to begin. --By Charles Krauthammer
...representative of the convenience-store chain complained that it was unfair to identify the store because that would tend also to identify the victim ("There is an element of validity to that," Perry concedes), but was more upset that the story had mentioned the chain's name. The only way the story could have been written to satisfy this complainant, Perry says, was "A woman was raped late last night someplace here." People involved in the news do not really want fairness, he insists, they want "favor, exemption, protection from public notice...They want only the 'good' news published--that...
Strange work. Columnists take a ribbing from their fellow journalists, reporters especially, who tend to regard columnists with the same chummy contempt that linemen show quarterbacks. Reporters do the real work, sleep in cars, get kicked by Mafia bosses on the courthouse steps. Even editors do some sweating (yelling is taxing). But columnists ride the gravy train, that's what the pressroom says. In a way, it's true. They manage to arrive home before midnight; they dine with the brass. Their physical exercise consists of pacing all the way to the far end of the study, and often back...