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...them of the political spillover effects if they fail to follow through on this promptly. You should also press them (again) to do something about that bureaucratic screen that they have used, for far too long, to protect their industries from outside competition. In the end, of course, the root of our trade deficit is the sad state of American competitiveness-and that is our problem, not theirs...
Mutual Benefit. Even if the Soviets get all the technology they want, there is no guarantee that it will solve their problems. One of the root causes of the Russian economic problem is overcentralization and political interference in what should be purely business decisions. "Even if advanced technology is imported from the West, it cannot be properly applied in the present system," declared one visiting U.S. scientist recently. "The party gets...
...comics and commentary? As a bonus, there is also the Trib's own crew of offbeat freelancers who lend the paper a welcome air of leisured whimsy. Souren Melikian, a Persian prince, covers art and artifact auctions with the colorful authority of both expert and buyer. Gastronome Waverly Root writes lovingly of rare, night-blooming mushrooms and the perils of absinthe, interspersed with an occasional reminiscence of Paris whores of the 1920s. Among Trib critics, Henry Pleasants comments on music with competence, and Thomas Quinn Curtis disagrees rather consistently-but stylishly-with almost everyone else on which movies...
Women, on the other hand, stepped in "with greater tact and subtlety. They tended to stay longer and seemed much more concerned about getting to the root causes of the conflict." The women had another advantage: a built-in "calming effect," discovered during psychodramas that were part of the guards' training. Enraged men, Sherman found, "simply could not respond as angrily or violently to the women...
...frightening to imagine Orwell as one of these cold war intellectuals; indeed, the idea strikes at the root of our very conception of him and his meaning. To have accepted from the U.S. government the bit and blinders he would not take from the Communist party, one feels, would have transformed him at one stroke from a vibrant apostle of honesty in politics into a pathetic hack...