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Rwanda's Foreign Minister, who allegedly absconded from New York City earlier this month with $187,000 in cash for the country's bankrupt U.N. mission, has turned up in Paris with empty pockets -- or so he claims. Rwanda's government called for an international manhunt to catch Hutu regime holdover Jean Marie Vianney Ndagijimana; today, he told Agence France-Presse: "They're trying to bury me politically...
Much as it cheered Ronald Reagan, who, more than Schweik or Candide, is the real proto-Gump. Reagan too was relentlessly upbeat. Reagan too was extraordinarily lucky. And his luck, like Gump's, was often built on the backs of people who suffered off-screen. Forrest had bankrupt shrimpers, martyred Vietnam buddies, and his wife, whose death was remarkably demure, considering her ailment. Reagan scored points off America's poor; somehow managed to cloak himself in heroism while apologizing for a needless screw-up that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut; and avoided tarnishing his reputation for optimism by spending...
...double play: sell the players on a salary cap (thereby limiting their total income, as other professional sports leagues do) and work out a mechanism for wealthy teams (the New York Yankees, the world champion Toronto Blue Jays) to share more revenue with their impoverished cousins (like the near bankrupt Pittsburgh Pirates and Selig's Brewers...
...character has her upsets; for one, she is bankrupt and has to fend off the propositions of an unruly husband who has left her. But around Charlie, her personal problems dissolve and her public ones being. In the end, Hollywood, just as we want it to, wins happily...
...Enterprise reform," to close outmoded factories and make the rest more efficient, has been official policy since 1984, but until very recently little was accomplished. Since 1988 only an estimated 1,000 firms have been allowed to go bankrupt. The reason is that the state enterprises are not just places of employment: under old-style communist thinking they were social nuclei, providing their workers with everything from cheap housing, education and medical care to free haircuts. "Government departments in charge of these enterprises don't want to see them go bankrupt because they will be the ones in charge...