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by S. Frederick Staw
Last January, the trustees of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago awarded grants totaling $25 million for a va- riety of studies of how the East-West arms competition might at last be (peacefully) ended. The news prompted a rush of proposals for fur-ther studies hom within and beyond academe-among them the fol- lowing, in a travel-stained envelope bearing a four-rupee stamp and a blurred postmark hom India:
A Proposal to the M...