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...have a history, the San Francisco slugger and me. Years before he began his assault on Mark McGwire?s homerun record, Bonds broke my heart. Back in the early ?90s, he belied his bravado, choked stupendously during key playoff games, and left my beloved Pirates dangling just short of the World Series. Two years in a row I sat watching the hated Atlanta Braves play for the championship, gnashing my teeth and cursing Barry Bonds...
...WHEN IT?S HAYNES, IT POURS: Praise is raining down on "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson (Harcourt; October). PW gives it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "Johnson reevaluates what happened to America in the ?90s and paints a warts-and-all portrait that may shock many Americans and force others to review the new millennium?s values...America from 1990 to 2001 - from impeachment to recession, the rise of the Internet to the fall of Nasdaq, and the upheaval of the 2000 elections - is covered in startling...
...Chiapas to opening up Mexico's heavily bureaucratized economy to the bracing winds of market forces. And right now, he's not doing very well. Nor could he be expected to, since the legislature is controlled by his enemies. Russian reformer Boris Yeltsin had the same problem in the '90s, but Fox doesn't have Yeltsin's option of sending in tanks to shell parliament. So, much of his agenda remains stalled...
...Public education started in the middle of the 19th century. When, in the 1960s, a leftist education reformer named John Holt began pushing home schooling as an alternative to conformist public schools, his ideas were seen as fringe. Home schooling was illegal in many states until the 1980s and '90s, when well-organized evangelical Christians adopted home schooling as a way to escape what they saw as the creeping disorder of the campus...
...spent 10 years in an atmosphere of perpetual crisis," he recalls. "But then in the '90s it suddenly clicked: Why try to compete with the Japanese when our speciality is high-quality mechanical watchmaking...