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...Passing the Buck Under pressure from his party's liberal wing, President Clinton agrees to pursue a $1-an-hour increase in the minimum wage...
...dropping more bombs on Iraq because from their perspective, Clinton has a double standard. He relentlessly pursues Saddam's weapons of mass destruction while saying nothing about the atom bombs everyone assumes Israel has stashed in its basement. The Arabs believe Clinton is less likely now than ever to buck Congress and his own party by browbeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into a deal...
Ryutaro Hashimoto has a credibility problem. While international-finance officials raced to rescue Indonesia and buck up South Korea last week, Japan's Prime Minister was struggling to restore confidence in his own country's cratering economy. Hashimoto delivered a State of the Union parliamentary address that was unique in its brevity and laserlike in its focus on emergency measures to stimulate growth and reinforce sagging financial institutions. "It is my unwavering determination," he declared, "to avoid at all costs a worldwide financial or economic panic originating in Japan." The Japanese financial markets gagged on that plea for confidence, plunging...
...assault on Mickey Mouse. And speaking of assault, Tonya Harding, the truck-driving heroine of that infamous gang of hockey pucks who conspired to conk Kerrigan on the knee--inadvertently adding a booster jet to skating's already soaring popularity--has, depending on the day, seemed just a fast buck away from wet-T-shirt contests, the roller derby or jail...
...debate about where Morrison ranks among the other American laureates will probably simmer for years. Does she belong with Steinbeck and Pearl S. Buck, authors whose earnest social concerns and novels now strike most critics and readers as passe? Some reviewers have found Morrison's novels overly deterministic, her characters pawns in the service of their creator's designs. Essayist Stanley Crouch says Morrison is "immensely talented. I just think she needs a new subject matter, the world she lives in, not this world of endless black victims." But for every pan, Morrison has received a surfeit of paeans...