25 YEARS AGO IN REASON.

* "Nobody liked General Motors long before they'd ever heard of Ralph Nader--it's part of the whole antibigness thing in the American culture. But people like me who are in many ways in a totally spoiled position--I'm paid to sit around and play with symbols and react, you know, effectively to all kinds of symbols. I can work up a big froth over General Motors for far longer periods of time than most of our fellow countrymen, who can only work up very short froths over GM."

--An Interview with Nicholas von Hoffman

* "The lesson business has learned [in developing coal on the Crow reservation in Montana] has been unmistakable: It is cheaper to influence the Bureau of Indian Affairs into cajoling tribes to...