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UNFORTUNATELY for Salinas, his troubles don't end with the foreign debt crisis and the drastic measures it has imposed on the Mexican people. He finds himself in a climate of political turmoil, with no clear mandate for himself or his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and a bigger and more vocal opposition in Congress than ever before. Having won what the opposition charges was a fraud-laden election, with a bare majority of 50.7 percent--the worst showing ever for a PRI candidate (who always wins)--Salinas enters office with a less than impressive political mandate...
...Gordon Gekko told a stockholders' meeting in the movie Wall Street. Stephen Koepp, the editor of our Business section, is not so categorical. This week's cover stories on the biggest takeover battle in U.S. history gave him a chance to explore an important question: Is the lust for bigger and bigger deals harming the U.S. economy? Says he: "A healthy appetite for profits is what makes capitalism work. But at these levels, is it just a power game, in which money is a means of keeping score and the deals themselves are sometimes pointless and destructive...
Tactical explanations don't go far. After all, the biggest tactical error of this campaign, Quayle, was made by the other guy. And tactical explanations miss the bigger picture. The Democratic Party is not the only left-of-center party to find itself increasingly shut out of national power. Earlier this month Israel's Labor Party lost its third election out of the past four. Its decline appears irreversible. The same is true for Britain's Labor Party, defeated for the third time in a row last year...
...bigger saves came during Colgate'ssecond power play of the night. Mike Bishop shotfrom the middle of the zone, looking for the puckto slip past Roy. But the freshman goalie buriedthe puck between his pads and 30 seconds later,Murphy gave Harvard the lead...
Peaslee, one of the founding members of Christian and the Infidels, says there is a distinct difference between playing in clubs and playing at Harvard parties. "A club is bigger, but at a party people come with a totally different attitude because they want to dance, and you have to keep up the fun that way," Peaslee says...