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The innings so far have transformed the whole climate for investing. Individuals and institutions, many of whom lost faith in stocks during the 1970s as a hedge against inflation, have returned to the market in droves. Since last August, Merrill Lynch has added 900,000 customers to the 3.2 million...
The mirror-image fantasy is not as crazy as it seems. Fundamentally, it is a radical denial of the otherness of others. Or to put it another way, a blinding belief in "common humanity," in the triumph of human commonality over human differences. It is a creed rarely fully embraced...
The new South Street revival is the result of a 16-year struggle by a persistent group of citizens. Out of a love of old ships and the gritty charm of old buildings and streets, they began a unique route to urban renewal. The first step, in 1967, was the...
As the only nation to suffer the horrors of an atomic attack, Japan decided in 1956 never to acquire nuclear weapons. Nakasone has reiterated that pledge, though he, like his predecessors, must fudge a bit. The government vowed that atomic weapons would never be "introduced" into the country, but it...
But the ruling arts are those that provide tangible social services and are grounded in consensus: namely, design and architecture. It was quite normal for a corporation like the Mitsubishi Bank, in commissioning its new Tokyo headquarters, to spend millions in "prestige" money for the building and the corporate design...