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...however temporarily. The address won bipartisan plaudits on Capitol Hill and favorable coverage in the press. Overnight polls showed the President's approval rating, which had sagged to a four-year low, rising by as much as 9 points. At the White House, the mood changed from tragic to triumphant. "There's a big difference over there," said Nancy Reynolds, a close friend of the Reagans'. "You can hear it in people's voices. You can smell...
Howard Stringer now must keep the network from losing in a limp. "This is a tough and tragic time for us," says the CBS News president. His tough job is to reverse the trend in soaring budgets, sparked a decade ago at all three networks by the lure of high-tech equipment and ABC News President Roone Arledge's U.S.F.L.-style raids on the competition. Sending the A team to sites of big stories is another hefty item; a weekend in Reykjavik cost each network around $1 million. And in the days of affluence, says a former CBS executive...
Nuclear weapons divide and threaten mankind. But there are peaceful uses of nuclear energy that should promote the unity of mankind. Permit me to say a few words on this subject. Participants in the forum have mentioned in their speeches the disaster at Chernobyl, an example of the tragic interaction of equipment failure and human error. Nevertheless, the aversion people rightly feel for military applications must not spill over to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mankind cannot do without nuclear power. We must find a solution to the safety problem that will rule out the possibility of another Chernobyl...
...another way, the unconstrained see human beings as perfectible, the constrained as forever flawed. The constrained vision, as expressed by Adam Smith or Alexander Hamilton, seeks trade-offs; the unconstrained vision, as in John Stuart Mill or Thomas Jefferson, seeks solutions. "The constrained vision is a tragic vision of the human condition," Sowell writes. "The unconstrained vision is a moral vision of human intentions...
...Tyrones seem like an average middle class family of 1912 as they sit around the table gossiping about the neighbors. But in the course of four acts, and almost as many hours, they disintegrate into four tragic shells, forced to confront the painful truths of their wasted lives...