A RAW SPECTACLE THAT ENERGIZED THE ELECTORATE
We are going to miss this. As tawdry and distasteful as it has been, it has been fun to watch, just as ''A Current Affair'' or Phil, Oprah and Geraldo...
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FROM MOSCOW TO MAIN STREET, A SENSE OF UNEASE
It must have felt like this when the Middle Ages began to fade, or when the American Revolution forced the colonists to choose between the old and the new. Or...
IT MAY TAKE A FED FIRE SALE TO SPARK ECONOMIC RECOVERY
When you go into almost any store these days, you are likely to find a good sale. Store owners are so desperate for business that they are cutting their prices...
DIRECTOR THOMAS AND JUSTICE GATES WILL DO US PROUD
These Senate hearings take a toll not only on the nominees, but also on us. It`s often difficult to keep track of the characters and the issues they are discussing....
AS THE RUBLE GOES, SO GOES THE FATE OF THE SOVIET UNION
Consider, for a second, the ruble. This may be an unexciting subject to you after watching the recent political drama in the Soviet Union, or what`s left of it. But...
COLLECTIVE UTOPIA CRASHES HEAD-ON INTO THE REAL WORLD
Welcome back, class. It`s fun to be a high-school senior and getting ready to go into the big, wide world, isn`t it? It`s been a long summer and a lot...
AN ERA OF DISTRUST AND COMPETITION- WAS IT WORTH IT?
No one is weeping today for the death of communism or totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, least of all the citizens of the U.S. and the USSR. For nearly 50...
GORBACHEV`S FALL IS DISPIRITING FOR U.S. CAPITALISTS
Americans cannot afford to be complacent about the departure of Mikhail Gorbachev. In all their isolationist glory, they will try. They will ask the inevitable question, ''How does this really...
THE BIG GET BIGGER AS CONSOLIDATION FEVER TAKES HOLD
Small is beautiful, wrote E.F. Schumacher so long, long ago. Unfortunately, economies do not run on beauty. The most famous line from the movie ''King Kong'' should now be rewritten:...
CYCLE WON`T RESTORE A U.S. ECONOMY BENT OUT OF SHAPE
Americans live fearlessly in a world of endless cycles. To them, the economy rises, falls, then rises again, looking much the same as it did before the decline. To them,...