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...ambassador there, developed an instinctive antipathy toward thugs. As TIME's Ann Blackman explains in her Albright biography, Seasons of Her Life (Scribner), she mirrors him: she has a deep reservoir of intelligence and wit, but sometimes seems to wear blinders to protect her from things that clash with her self-image. For example, for years she almost willfully hid from herself, as her father had hidden from her, evidence that her family was Jewish and that many perished in the Holocaust...
...specific proposal would go toward closing that gap, are still anybody's guess. And those guesses depend on such variables as the speed of economic growth, the future pace of inflation and the course of the stock market--all notoriously difficult to predict even a year ahead. Estimates clash so sharply as to invite suspicion that they are shaped more by political bias than by analysis...
...inclined often invoke an ideology, a generalized message or an essentialized doctrine. Folk music, which may be said to have stemmed from labor and anti-war movements, is an example of such a phenomenon, as is a transatlantic punk movement of the late '70s--bands such as the Clash, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television and the Sex Pistols. Both of these groupings arose organically through an interaction between music makers and music listeners; yet both also have lost this political consciousness as a consolidated movement. Who could defend the entire genre of folk or punk rock in light...
...Horn were to indeed "cometotheKendoClub," she would find that underneath the animated exterior of Japanese fencing lies an unshakable atmosphere of courtesy, honor and respect that would fundamentally clash with the obscene nature of her imagined posters. For this reason, the Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club has never and will never employ such indecent advertising strategies...
...trying to figure out how Internet companies will ultimately figure in the economy--Will they crash and burn? Or soar even higher?--CMGI is a good place to start. It is a company very much in the middle of the clash between the old and new market models, and between old and new media, that is occurring all over Wall Street. To smitten Internet investors today, profits don't matter; it's the new economic order of the future that counts. So buying a company's stock on the basis of profits is irrelevant. These investors look only...