Word: discontentment
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It is a measure of this impatience that Steve Forbes, as unlikely a jockey as we are ever likely to encounter this side of Churchill Downs, is trying to ride that discontent to the head of the G.O.P. presidential race. Whether he ever intended, or expected, to get as far...
But discontent and insecurity have causes beyond spoiled-brattism. Many people seem to have a dim but accurate sense that some of the trends that enabled them to pursue the good life despite declining real wages are stagnating or even reversing.
Russia's pernicious internal rebellion, however, is the most serious nettle for Yeltsin's presidential prospects. Thirteen months of war there has cost 30,000 lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis...
Even if that quiets the immediate discontent, however, Chechnya is Yeltsin's weak point, and his challengers sense it. Lebed criticized the Kremlin's handling of the hostage crisis and warned that "there was no guarantee it won't happen again." In his declaration speech Zhirinovsky demanded, "End the war...
Still, a divorcing of the Waleses would have several gray areas--apart from the spectacle of the perpetual Windsors of discontent. Diana, for one, will always be the mother of William, presumably the next King but one. By tradition, a postdivorce Diana would retain the title Princess of Wales unless...