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...anchored by Christian Democrats and Socialists that had held power since the end of World War II fell to ignominious defeat: its candidates won only 14% of the vote countrywide. In search of a party with a stronger message, or perhaps just in revenge for the havoc politicians have wrought on the country, Italians registered their protest by turning to both the far left and the far right. The Northern League, an upstart populist movement centered in Milan, continued to gain power. It has threatened nothing less than the partition of the country into autonomous federations, dividing < the wealthy north...
...symbol of the future, multiethnic face of America. A combination of the racial and ethnic features of the women used to produce the chart, she is: 15% Anglo-Saxon, 17.5% Middle Eastern, 17.5% African, 7.5% Asian, 35% Southern European and 7.5% Hispanic. Little did we know what we had wrought. As onlookers watched the image of our new Eve begin to appear on the computer screen, several staff members promptly fell in love. Said one: "It really breaks my heart that she doesn't exist." We sympathize with our lovelorn colleagues, but even technology has its limits. This...
...exaggeration to say that current global changes are on par with those wrought by the Industrial Revolution. Consequently, sectors adversely affected in the global reordering need to be given financial support for retraining. It is an inescapable fact that a society driven by capitalism inevitably must face problems of obsolescence in both its skills and technology...
...exhaustive, if somewhat over-wrought, look at the career of Clinton advisor David Gergen, Michael Kelly's New York Times Magazine cover story last week documented how the 1968 Nixon presidential campaign revolutionized the way candidates were presented...
That may sound funny, but it was gallows humor to most viewers. A year before, Hurricane Andrew had wrought billions of dollars of damage on South Florida, and it wrought far worse damage on the region's psyche...