Why the State Department sends
Salvadoran refugees home to die
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February 1984
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The Culpability Trap
We are all familiar with the cliche that nobody ever corrects a problem until it is too late. King Lear didn’t recognize the virtue of his only loving daughter, Cordelia, until after his false daughters, Goneril and Regan, tricked him into giving them his kingdom. Our allies in Europe didn’t recognize the threat posed by […]
Posted inFebruary 1984, Magazine
The Big Massage
How the idea of the sixties takes the politics out of the eighties.
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Mis-led and Under-worked: Life in Today’s Air Force
“Aim High.” The slogan used to be “A Great Way of Life,” but last year the United States Air Force decided to change it. “We wanted a new emphasis on the increased technology aspect of the modern Air Force,” explains Captain Maryellen Jadick, who’s in charge of Air Force advertising for an area that includes […]
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The Making of Make-Work
Why does the Air Force have too little work for too many people? “A general has an almost pathological urge to command,” one Air Force colonel observes, readily conceding that this bureaucratic urge extends to colonels as well, though usually in somewhat more subdued form. Indeed, officers in today’s Air Force seem hard-pressed to find […]
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‘Care for a spin in my chateau, Postmaster?’
Last October the United States Postal Service announced its desire to raise the price of a first-class stamp from 20 to 23 cents. Aside from the scattered grumblings of a few editorial writers and cartoonists (one of whom depicted the new 23-cent stamp as bearing a likeness of Al Capone), the news was greeted with […]
