Word: authority
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Marshall I. Goldman is the associate director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, and a professor of economics at Wellesley College. He is the author of many books on the Soviet Union, the most recent of which is the forthcoming Gorbachev's Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology to be published by W. W. Norton for release in the Spring...
...recent study of rent control in Berkeley and Santa Monica by Richard Devine of the "Center for Community Change," a non-profit organization dedicated to the empowerment of the poor, the author concluded that "the overwhelming majority of benefits...accrued to middle-class households who were given the unique and ethically comfortable opportunity of maximizing their interest by voting to protect the poor from exploitation." He found that expenditures for discretionary goods such as stereo equipment and gourmet food to be unusually high in these communities. Such items were paid for with increased disposable income due to articially low rent...
Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian-born author of novels and plays, was cited by the Swedish Academy of Letters as a writer "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence...
...year-old Nigerian author has long lived in exile in London and writes primarily in English. Soyinka was arrested in Nigeria in 1967 and held for 22 months on the charge of conspiring with anti-government rebels fighting for the independent state of Biafara...
...Gift of Sweet Mustard" imagines that his unemployed wife is carrying on an affair while he is at work during the day. Their anxiety and its aftermath of malaise isn't necessary. They are either too empty-headed or devious in a way that the author has completely neglected to clarify. Why don't they just...