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When Israeli Labor Party leader Shimon Peres traded the foreign affairs portfolio for the Finance Ministry, he also traded headaches: curing the country's ailing economy won't be much easier than making peace. Israel's highly socialized economy suffers from double-digit inflation, lagging exports, shrunken tourism and the high cost of dealing with the Palestinian uprising. Last week Peres set off a storm of protest when he unveiled an austerity plan that affronted many, including members of his own party...
...with a master touch. And the master, the suave manipulator, is Alan Parker. By avocation he is a caricaturist, and by vocation too. He chooses gross faces, grand subjects, base motives, all for immediate impact. The redneck conspirators are drawn as goofy genetic trash: there's not a three-digit IQ in the lot, not a chin in a carload. These are not bad men -- they're baaaad guys. And the blacks are better than good; their faces reveal them as martyrs, sanctified by centuries of suffering. Caricature is a fine dramatic tradition, when you have two hours to tell...
...standard of living for many Americans. Prices of all imported goods will rise, as will those of many American goods whose producers see a way to increase profits and still compete. According to Thurow, there would be a serious risk of the United States heading "back to double-digit inflation" and suffering "a noticeable reduction in the American standard of living...
Pool places only a modest burden on the wallet at a time when dinner and an evening out for two can inflict triple-digit damage. "It's cheap entertainment," says New York banker Stephen Eisenstein. "You can come by and meet a friend and chat -- or not -- as you choose." Nor is the sport as physically demanding as the swingles scene. Says real estate investor Miles Levine: "Sex and drugs are out. We're going back to a more conservative time...
James led the Crimson in scoring and rebounding last season with 14.5 point and 5.7 rebounds per game. The 6-ft., 4-in. guard reached the double-digit mark in 21 of his 26 games last season. Harvard was 11-10 in the games that James scored 10 or more points and winless in the games in which he was limited to less than...