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...critics of Perez Balladares, a beefy, combative millionaire businessman known as Toro, or Bull, say his actions are out of step with his words. Heir to the helm of the Revolutionary Democratic Party, once in the grip of Noriega, Perez Balladares has appointed Noriega's former Foreign Minister, Jorge Ritter, as his Minister for Canal Affairs and chairman of the new 11-member Panama Canal Authority, the agency that will run the facility after 2000. In addition, the President has invited a storm of criticism by naming a passel of relatives and political cronies to the Canal Authority board. They...
...would decrease its imports of American goods, thus widening its already large trade gap with this country. At the worst, Japan would begin selling off some of its $320 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, leading to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and perhaps an end to the bull market...
...breakthrough came as a Gulf War veteran turned heroin addict in the 1996 drama Courage Under Fire. In a move reminiscent of De Niro's weight gain for Raging Bull, Damon dropped 40 lbs. for a two-day scene opposite Denzel Washington. It created an anorexia-like medical condition (from which he only recently recovered), but the intensity of his performance convinced the industry that Damon was a serious actor...
...stakes for the U.S. are particularly high in Japan and Korea. Banking collapses in either country would pull back gobs of capital from the U.S. and possibly slay the bull market. At the same time, a sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...
...days of Bull Connor, police dogs and fire hoses are long gone, and many would find it comforting to believe that skin color is no longer an issue for kids. Has the newest generation of Americans finally arrived at that melanin-friendly Promised Land? No. But a new TIME/CNN poll of 1,282 adults and 601 teens (ages 12 to 17) has found a startling number of youngsters, black and white, who seem to have moved beyond their parents' views of race. These kids say race is less important to them, both on a personal level and as a social...