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Hand in hand with commerce goes technology, and the tools of technology were mostly baptized in the U.S. The French still cling to ordinateur instead of computer, but in Italy even schoolchildren call it by its American name. Also floppy disks, lasers, compact disks, software. Germans buy Tapes, not Magnetbander. In fact, they call the whole field hitec...
Texans may cling more tightly to the Texas myth as they sense the ground shifting under them. In many ways, the Texas myth and reality are going their separate ways. The state is gradually moving toward a service economy. For all the lore of cattle and oil, the action in Texas today is more likely to be found in medical research, in computer and space technology. "Texas society is changing profoundly in the same way that all American society is changing," says Historian Fehrenbach. "Texans are beginning to earn a living more in the fashion of other Americans." The state...
...customary in a Le Carre novel, the odor of moral fatigue and middle-age burnout cling to every page. But Magnus' betrayals also smell of the cradle and the grave. His acts of treason are not rooted in greed or politics. They are delayed rebellions not only against a criminal father but against a system that appears only slightly better. "You have a lawyer's training, you have Czech language and Czech expertise," a personnel bureaucrat tells a reassigned spy. "More appropriately you have a thoroughly sleazy mind. Apply it . . . We expect terrible things of you." This sort of thing...
...double irony is that because their relationship is based on original deception, their extramarital affair, it has no chance of working. Annie and Henry cling blindly to the marriage anyway, thinking that they've found the real thing. Soon love degenerates to lust, commitment becomes a bargain, and everything is a big disappointment...
...protests that lured thousands of Haitians into the streets last week to denounce the government probably represent a point of no return for the country. Even if Duvalier's reign has not yet ended and he somehow manages to cling to power for a while, his viselike grip on Haiti has been irrevocably shattered...