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These guidelines, however, remain preliminary. If the federal parliament decides to admit all citizens who are mentioned in the records into the archives, as some government officials suggest, there will be a flood of inquiries from those who want to see their former oppressors and secret accusers brought to justice. Already many Germans are aghast over revelations of former spies -- and therefore traitors -- in their midst. Fearful of the divisive potential of "de-Stasification," some Germans have called for a limited amnesty. In an interview in the daily Die Welt, former Chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Those who abused their countrymen...
Beneath the retrenchment and return to basics one can see the mark of American Calvinism, as consumers pull back and repent what many now consider the evil excesses of the Reagan years. The doomsayers seem to be savoring the chance to put priorities straight. "When the stock market crashed in '87, people thought the party was over -- the bar was still open but the band went home," says a young financier who has been laid off by the junk-bond department of a New York City investment bank. "Well, now the bar has closed...
Most Successful Product That Grownups Don't Understand Those irrepressible reptiles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, inspired children and their parents to shell out more than $1 billion to see the cold-blooded heroes on the big screen and bring home such turtle tie-ins as video games and breakfast cereal. In 1990 a guaranteed way to start a conversation with an eight-year- old was to ask "Which turtle...
...Shelby Steele argues, preferential treatment for blacks has an even more pernicious cost: it creates corrosive doubt in the eyes of both whites and blacks about the worth of any black achievement. However much people may deny it, no one can see a black professor or doctor without having the thought run through his mind: Did he make it on his own or did he get through on a quota? These doubts gratuitously reinforce in both blacks and whites a presumption of racial inferiority...
...Well, when did you yourself see there was no future in communism...