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Still, we're paying for a mountain of foreign goods that will be junk in ten years with land, buildings and the rights to The Three Stooges -- things that are eternal (well, maybe not the buildings). We're like the Manhattan Indians, who had little immediate need for the island...
But with a car, it's different. We still make some here; and while my friends assure me their foreign ones are a lot better, they all go at about the same speed.
-- They could buy a less expensive car than they otherwise might, investing the difference, as the Indians should have, to grow richer. (Actually, many of us are not buying the trinkets with money we have. We're borrowing to buy the trinkets, which is really insane.)
Until the Frank expose, few people viewed the Times, founded in 1982, as a serious menace. The newspaper, after all, is owned by investors who are members of the Unification Church headed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy. Yet many critics who...
Beyond revelations about Frank, the paper has scored its share of scoops -- some substantial, others ephemeral. Reporters earn a bonus for each exclusive. The Times covers conservative politics well and wielded influence during the Reagan Administration. But in the age of glasnost, the paper's strident anti-Communism seems out...