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...gonna walk the plank alone," Lott told them. The two men spoke over the phone on occasion, but most of Lott's contact was with chief of staff Erskine Bowles--someone Lott "likes and trusts." The President remained disengaged, which surprised Lott as he watched Clinton's window of opportunity closing fast...
Charismatic and brilliant, Laudor saw his daily struggle as a war of TV channels. There was the Suicide Channel, with its images of slit wrists, Nazis, himself falling out of a window, and then there was the Calm Station, a cabin in the Alps, green pastures, still waters, souls restored. Both occupied the screen simultaneously, and sometimes it was only with the greatest of efforts that he could relegate the extreme visions to a corner, reduced, as it were, to a picture-in-picture presence, with reality flickering in the middle. Once Laudor could count on his father Charles...
From high on the hill in the riverside town of Wanxian, Gu Xiaoli looks out over the boat dock from her kitchen window and sighs. She is cooking a modest dinner of rice soup, pigs' feet and steamed buns. In the past two years, she, her husband and her son have all been laid off from textile factories in the town. With their combined pensions of $100 a month, they also have to support her 85-year-old father. Her biggest worry is for her son. After being laid off, he opened a restaurant that failed; then...
China might look like a monolithic one-party dictatorship, but it's not: Ask President Clinton, who struggled to show the world today that the seeds of democracy are being planted here. "Your achievements are a window for all the world to see what local democracy has brought to China and what a brighter future you are building," Clinton told a gathering of elected local officials in the village of Xiahe. Of course, Chinese "democracy" might be unfamiliar to Americans -- there's only one political party in the world's most populous country. Still, the recent shift from having local...
...shortages are also appearing in the least-skilled jobs. "You drive around and every fast-food restaurant has a HELP WANTED sign hanging in the window," observes Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. Such signs also decorate the grocery stores, clothing boutiques and delicatessens filling strip malls across the continent. Not only are high sales creating many new jobs, but employee turnover is enormous. At these levels, says Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower Inc., the world's largest provider of temporary help, job experience, even the briefest exposure to hamburger flipping, is almost as sought...