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...tabloid, it had credibility. Nine out of 10 of that paper's striking unions reached tentative agreements with their corporate parent last week to reconcile huge downsizing. When corporations wield such cold power that they can unite with each other to face down their workers, you know that a capitalist conspiracy is in our midst...
...question arises: If aggregate growth has lately been widening the gap between the affluent and the middle class, why should spurring even more growth by unfettering capitalism be expected to narrow the gap? It's the most fettered capitalist economies that have kept that gap the narrowest. Virtually all European countries have higher taxes than the U.S. (as a fraction of economic output) and higher income equality...
Sadly, one of the best winter spectator sports, kitschy-ice-skating-outfit-watching, has been in decline ever since the Soviet Union went capitalist and discovered good taste. The final straw: OKSANA BAIUL, whose feathery, tear-stained confection did Ukraine so proud in the 1994 Olympics (above), has been given a makeover in December's Seventeen (left). Well, it had to happen. In the year she has lived in the U.S., Baiul has cottoned on to a lot of what it means to be an American teenager. When not performing, she likes to shop, she says, especially for clothes...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Scourge of communism loses his TV series to a capitalist ailment: low ratings...
Your Siberia cover headline questions, THE RAPE OF SIBERIA...CAN IT BE SAVED BY CAPITALISM? That's like asking Can Alaska be saved by oil spills? Opening a part of Siberia that has not already been wounded by nuclear and other environmental horrors under communism to capitalist ventures in oil, forestry and so on will only make a bad situation worse. I suggest that the only kind of capitalism that should be allowed in Siberia is operations to clean up those areas damaged by hazardous dumping, and maybe a squadron of wrecking balls for Norilsk. Vice President Gore should turn...