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Voters Inclined To Loathe And Fear Elite Ivy League Schools Rarely Make Fine Distinctions Between Yale And Harvard. All They Know Is That Both Are Full Of Rich, Fancy, Stuck-up And Possibly Dangerous Intellectuals Who Never Sit Down To Supper In Their Undershirt No Matter How Hot The Weather Gets.

Those Who Remember Washington's Cold War Culture In The 1980s Will Recall The Shocked Reactions To Reagan's Intervention. People Interested In Foreign Policy Were Astonished When In 1985 He Met Alone At Geneva - Alone, Not A Single Strategic Thinker At His Elbow! - With The Soviet Communist Master Gorbachev.

How Many More Years Will Our Educators Continue To Lecture Us On The Evils Of Whipping Children Until They Bring Home High Grades? Year After Year We Listen To These Fellows Tell Us That It Is Not The Grade That Counts But The Development Of The Child's Personality. After The Lecture They Go Back To All The Best Schools And Reject Our Children Because They Have C Averages.

Now Scarcely A Week Goes By Without A News Story About The Cops Swooping Down On Some Adolescent Prowler Who Is As Skilled At Breaking Into Computer Systems As Defense Contractors Are At Breaking Into The Federal Budget.

Like All Young Reporters - Brilliant Or Hopelessly Incompetent - I Dreamed Of The Glamorous Life Of The Foreign Correspondent: Prowling Vienna In A Burberry Trench Coat, Speaking A Dozen Languages To Dangerous Women, Narrowly Escaping Sardinian Bandits - The Usual Stuff That Newspaper Dreams Are Made Of.