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Among the more serious consequences of last week's action could be a breakdown--or at least a slow erosion--of the consensus for sanctions against Iraq. China has long called for a lifting of the embargo to ensure an uninterrupted flow of imported oil. Lawmakers in Moscow too muttered darkly about unilateral removal of trade restrictions. Even if sanctions survive, there's no guarantee that Saddam will become less dangerous, just as a toothless UNSCOM didn't keep him in check...
Indonesia is sliding into darkness. The Nov. 22 killings were a first for Jakarta, but since late summer there have been more than 250 lynchings across the archipelago. The killings seem to be a product of fear, economic frustration and a breakdown of law and order as security forces are withdrawn from the provinces to cover demonstrations in the cities. In Sumatra recently a man was beaten and burned alive because he couldn't tell suspicious residents the precise address of a relative he was visiting. "The reality principle is breaking down," says Professor Sarlito Wirawan Sarwono of the University...
...since most professors do not examine a breakdown of their sourcebook's costs, the possibility of overcharging remains...
...left [the production manager] a detailed message, but she wouldn't return my calls," Crawford says. "I didn't pursue it as persistently as I pursued the cost breakdown because I was so frustrated. I don't have time to keep calling them every day and every week...
...Glassberg, a computer-software sales representative in Long Island, N.Y., used to dread her 12-year-old daughter's return from school each day--and the two-hour crying jag that followed. "She'd hold herself together all day, but the minute she got home she'd have this breakdown," Glassberg says. Glassberg has carefully built an after-school routine of household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays...