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...more likely to arouse passion than the defense of a profession that, after exacting a grueling apprenticeship, provides their livelihood. The political system is apt to provide only limited succor; nearly half the members of Congress are lawyers. That is certainly one reason why nonlawyers feel compelled to resort to the weapon available to oppressed people everywhere -- sarcastic humor. (Q. Why does New Jersey have so much industrial waste and Washington, D.C., so many lawyers? A. New Jersey had first choice...
...well. Regulators have cracked down on banks, prompting them to cut back drastically on their lending. Companies drowning in debt are slashing capital investment and firing employees. Nearly 1 million workers have been laid off so far this year. Even the government, usually a reliable spender of last resort in a recession, will be absent this time because of record deficits at every level -- local, state and federal...
...turn-of-the-century hotels at Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, outside Orlando. May marked the opening of the most interesting of the Disney architecture, an administration building in Lake Buena Vista by Arata Isozaki. And at Euro Disney outside Paris, where a $4.1 billion theme park and resort will open next spring, buildings designed by Graves, Stern, Frank Gehry and Antoine Predock are all under construction...
Fast cars, faster food -- everything is getting quicker, including the rush to relax. Hard-driving Americans who will not -- or cannot -- take time for $ the lengthy luxury of a resort spa still want tiny bites of that bliss. Increasingly they are getting them by popping around the corner to a day spa, where a body scrub, mud bath or Shiatsu massage can be had in a jiffy. From Manhattan to Los Angeles, the body-friendly pit stops are becoming the trendiest way to deal with clangorous city existence. "All the stress just falls away," says Susan Luokkala, a Los Angeles...
...diversity of nationalities and peoples, past and present. In what person or doctrine can Eurocentrism be embodied? Savonarola? Jane Austen? Deism? Communism? Insofar as it means anything specific, Eurocentric looks suspiciously like a code word for "white." In attempting to combat racism, radical multiculturalists seem all too willing to resort to racism of another stripe...