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...There was a sense that politics had migrated into the popular culture," said Kennedy, who left his job at the New York District Attorney's Office to launch the political journal...
...flirting with ideas that are isolationist in their potential consequence if not in their actual intent. There's a resurgence of the view that we can now afford to go it alone." This is hardly a platform from which Clinton, flush from his Bosnia success--if it comes--can launch a new internationalism...
...when the U.S. was the sole possessor of atomic weapons and the U.N. Charter was being written. All the peace-loving countries would band together, the theory went, with the five permanent members of the Security Council in the lead. They would punish any nation that dared launch an aggressive war. That scenario was played out in Korea, but never thereafter until the Gulf War, which followed the breakup of the U.S.S.R...
Catalog operators, for their part, are facing not just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics...
...OPENING SCENE OF SHAKEspeare's The Tempest, as a ship careens in a gale, a sailor cries, "What care these roarers for the name of king?" In fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...