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...crippled the world trading system. Under Bush, says one of his former economic advisers, "the Europeans and Japanese knew that if they held out long enough, we wouldn't retaliate in any serious way, out of fear that we might trigger another escalation of trade barriers like in the '30s...
Variations: one woman who has been married three times and divorced three times uses all four available last names, changing them as if she were changing outfits, according to mood or season. More commonly it happens that a woman has made her professional reputation, in her 20s and 30s, while using the name of her first husband, then gets divorced and possibly remarried, but remains stuck with the first husband's name in the middle of her three-name procession...
...moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform in a '30s dance marathon with a partner who just won't quit. They shoot Aussies, don't they...
...human nature, Marshall knew that people often quickly forget those things that should never be forgotten. When I clerked for him in 1983, I heard him bitterly grumble about the way that in his view, many people seemed to have forgotten completely the civil rights champions of the '30s, '40s and '50s: people like Roy Wilkins, Walter White, William Hastie and Charles Hamilton Houston. I got the impression that Justice Marshall felt that he too had been slighted in favor of those who led the protest demonstrations of the '60s, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. At last week's memorial...
Clinton promised an administration that looked more like America and, as far as young people are concerned, he delivered: George Stephenopoulos, director of communications and Bruce Reed, a key advisor on welfare reform, are both in their early 30s...