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...more than one-third. But in fact the situation today is worse. While many parts of the U.S. economy are struggling through the recession, few are as hard hit as energy. By every measure, these are among the toughest times since that first gusher at Spindletop in 1901 -- more akin to the Great Depression than the cyclical booms-and-busts since...
...formatting of the interviews is painfully homogeonized and formulaic. Each woman claims a chapter, at the head of which, in true yearbook style, is a photograph of the writer. At the end is a comprehensive list of the writer's publications, akin to the roster of a good sorority member's extra curricular activities. And each interview closes with a saccharine epilogue on the value of each woman writer to American letters...
Harkin the Hawk: veering close to unabashed protectionism, he demands that the Japanese reduce their trade surplus by 20% a year -- or else. The threat would be akin to a Fortress America ban on Japanese imports, a drastic remedy with scant appeal to voters who freely choose to drive Japanese cars...
...going to happen in the former Soviet Union is uncertain, so Turkey's position is more important than before. A new window of opportunity has opened for us with the Turkic republics. They speak our language. ((Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan speak Turkic languages. In Tajikistan the language is akin to Iranian Farsi.)) We are urging them to remain secular and to switch to the Latin alphabet...
...cultural matters we can hardly claim to have a left and a right anymore. Instead we have something more akin to two puritan sects, one masquerading as conservative, the other posing as revolutionary but using academic complaint as a way of evading engagement in the real world. Sect A borrows the techniques of Republican attack politics to show that if Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile...