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Only a vanguard party (their own, of course), using the correct tactics at the correct moment, can instigate a revolution.
The Class of '69 was caught in the generational riptide--torn in two directions--but the Class of '70 (which had a radically different demographic--far fewer preppies) thought of itself as being in the vanguard of the counterculture.
That the student activists of Berman's generation believed a political revolution to be within their grasp may seem a little puzzling from the vantage point of 30 years, but is perhaps understandable as a product of youthful exuberance: Berman himself lapses into a romantic nostalgia when he describes what it felt like to be in the vanguard of something new and magnificent--in politics, in culture, in the way human beings treat each other.
The magazine picks the 250 best funds "for the long haul" and ranks the 50 biggest stock funds (Vanguard Index had the best three-year performance).
Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of New York, the conservative vanguard on the issue, show no inclination to exploit research that says, in effect, Why care about day-care quality?