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...BERLIN WALL is gone, communism is fading into an esoteric academic study and, thus, we move from our reference to Vladimir Lenin's question, "What is to be Done?" to "Fifteen Minutes." Our new weekly magazine retains many of the old features of the "What" while adding many new departments...
...most controversial figures of his time, especially considering the social climate during the civil rights movement. Even further back, at the beginning of this century, Harvard's great president, A. Lawrence Lowell, was heavily pressured to rid the faculty of the lefties, who flirted with ideas of socialism and communism...
...have been allies of the U.S. since 1947 against the threat from the Soviet Union and the expansion of communism. We have had some differences, mostly over Cyprus, but I believe we have been able to overcome all the difficulties...
...many of its own practitioners came to recognize, communism was a bum idea. In the U.S.S.R., it barely survived the threescore years and 10 that the Bible prescribes as the mortal life-span. Its passing should free our "striving spirit" to concentrate on all sorts of other challenges, such as the growing conflict between the haves and the have-nots and the need to refine liberal democracy, not just in places like Sri Lanka but in the developed world as well. So Fukuyama can cheer up. The continuation of history will be plenty interesting...
That was just the sort of medicine Sachs has recommended to a dozen governments. His best-known patient is Poland, which two years ago adopted the so-called Sachs Plan, which decontrolled the economy overnight after nearly half a century of communism. The result has been both progress and pain. Stores have plenty of goods on the shelves, and inflation, which had been running at an annual rate of 2,000% in 1989, was down to 60% last year. But industrial output has plunged, and 2.1 million workers (12% of the work force) are unemployed. Not surprisingly, political backlash...