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The trick is to suggest this possibility with precision and economy. The Child in Time does so brilliantly, from the moment Stephen Lewis realizes his three-year-old daughter is missing from a supermarket check-out: "The lost child was everyone's property. But Stephen was alone. He looked through...
With the stock market setting new records, inflation quiescent and unemployment dropping below 6%, pressing economic problems like the deficit and the trade imbalance remain abstract to most voters. Chastened by the experience of Walter Mondale, most Democrats (save for Swim-Against-the-Tide Bruce Babbitt) are reluctant to propose...
I was driving the Harvard Shuttle Bus which malfunctioned on July 31, 1987, en route to Hudson, New Hampshire. The following is what occurred. As we were leaving the city, I began to notice an increasing heat on my right foot which was pressing down the gas pedal. At first...
Like a team of climbers nearing the top of a steep and dangerous mountain face, Western Europe's economies are beginning to show signs of fatigue. Though still pressing onward and upward, they face perilous obstacles, most notably the weak dollar. While Britain, Italy and Spain are still moving forward...
Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for glasnost (openness),* demokratizatsiya (democratization) and perestroika (restructuring) have become the watchwords of a bold attempt to modernize his country's creaky economic machinery and revitalize a society stultified by 70 years of totalitarian rule. In televised addresses, speeches to the party faithful and flesh- pressing...