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...moved closer to resuming normal ties. Japan, the largest provider of economic assistance to China, announced that it was sending an envoy to Beijing to discuss resuming negotiations on pending loans. In the U.S., President Bush called China's decision "a very sound step," and Washington immediately softened its blanket opposition to World Bank loans to China...
...heart of Ireland. (The Longfords, originally Protestant, converted to Catholicism one by one in the 1940s, in individual decisions.) The family is directly descended from Charles II. "Most people in England are," she chuckles, "and I'm no exception." All, of course, from "the wrong side of the blanket." She likes the fact that her line stems from the classy Duchess of Cleveland rather than the King's more ordinary mistress, actress Nell Gwyn...
...Olympics. Deborah Sussman's graphics and Jon Jerde's evanescent architecture for the Games of the Los Angeles Olympics were homogeneous, sunny, reassuring, nice. The color palette of the cardboard columns and fabric-covered fences was precisely of its time and place, beach-blanket postmodernism come to temporary life. For mere millions of dollars (rather than hundreds of millions), an Olympiad found its perfect aesthetic expression...
...conservative coalition is hourly expected is composed of social issues, particularly that most inflamed social issue, abortion. How can libertarian baby boomers raised on the Pill and Fundamentalists raised on the Seventh Commandment stay under the same tent? Probably more easily than anyone suspects. The fight for blanket antiabortion legislation will be bruising, and many purely economic conservatives will want no part of it. But the question of Government funding of abortions unites laissez-faire and Old Testament moralists alike. Many other social issues, such as day care, lend themselves to similar cross-cultural anti-Government alliances. Junk-bond dealers...
MUCH ink has been spilled recently, on these pages and elsewhere, on the question of German reunification. And for good reason--it is potentially the most important thing that's happened to the Eastern bloc since Yalta, in which international democracy accepted the fait accompli of a Soviet military blanket over Eastern Europe and thereby condemned millions of its newest members to at least 44 years of political suppression and economic stagnation...