Today, China is in grave danger of los- ing its past. Like a snail robbed of its shell, it has nothing to pull back into, little to carry forward with certainty. The mass movement for democracy in the spring of 1989 already did not happen. The govern- ment claims it was nothing but "counter- revolutionary turmoil" instigated by a handful of "hooligans." The students and ordinary citizens killed in Beijing may not be mourned publicly. Remembrance of the dead-long the anchor...
could a present-day Manhattanite of the century, had been more than dou-
somehow be transported back to the bling every 20 years and by 1850 stood at
mid-19th century, he would find little to slightly over half a million. The "Empire
surprise him in the New York City of that City," as some insisted on calling her, al-
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time. Although its teeming boardinghouses ready had the reputation of being a
and tenements, hotels, pleasure haunts, cosmopolis-of being, owing to the l...
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"The Political Thought of President George Washington" byWashington Richard Loss, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summ...
Terry W. Culler,
Let Them Eat Cake!
in Cam Policy Report (May-June 1989), 224 Second St. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20077-0872,
In Washington, it is called the "quiet cri- sis." Low pay is demoralizing the federal work force and draining it of talent, warn such "inside-the-Beltway" luminaries as Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Volcker now stumps for a big federal pay raise as head of a group called the National Commission on the Public...
Terry W. Culler,
Let Them Eat Cake!
in Cam Policy Report (May-June 1989), 224 Second St. S.E., Washington, D.C. 20077-0872,
In Washington, it is called the "quiet cri- sis." Low pay is demoralizing the federal work force and draining it of talent, warn such "inside-the-Beltway" luminaries as Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Volcker now stumps for a big federal pay raise as head of a group called the National Commission on the Public...
PERIODICALS
bottle, Steinberg says. Despite many non- the Soviet Union and the West. Washing- proliferation pacts, advanced weapons ton failed even to apply sanctions against have reached the Middle East from both Iraq after it used chemical weapons.
Words and War
From the American soldiers who fought during World War I1 we have inherited "snafu" ("situation normal, all f***** up") and many other words with unprintable definitions. Why this burst of sly verbal insubordination, asks...
politics and chance events.
He also developed concepts that help soldiers understand (and anticipate) the day-to-day vagaries of war. His notion of friction, writes Cannon, was "an elegantly stated predecessor of Murphy's Law," which held that countless minor incidents inevitably lower the level of military per- formance. A related concept is the "cul- minating point," the notion that a combat
But American officers have been most bewitched Clausewitz's emphasis on politics....
John A. Barnes, in The Wash- ington Monthly (June 1989), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- Of Cable TV ington, D.C. 20077-3865.
If you have cable television in your home, chances are that your local government has granted a franchise monopoly to a ca- ble company. Chances are also good that it made a big mistake, argues Barnes, an edi- tor at the Detroit News.
Since cable television's growth began during the 1970s, some 5,000 U.S. munici- palities have granted franchises. Cable, like telephone...
John A. Barnes, in The Wash- ington Monthly (June 1989), 161 1 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Wash- Of Cable TV ington, D.C. 20077-3865.
If you have cable television in your home, chances are that your local government has granted a franchise monopoly to a ca- ble company. Chances are also good that it made a big mistake, argues Barnes, an edi- tor at the Detroit News.
Since cable television's growth began during the 1970s, some 5,000 U.S. munici- palities have granted franchises. Cable, like telephone...