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Certainly there is no drift in the spring rolls, crispy outside but set apart by the flavor and freshness of the mix within. Shrimp dominates, but pork and mushroom are effective supports. The little rolls rush through various Chinese flavors like an overture, as though the appetizer was designed to appetize by example. The only (minor) flaw was an excess of grease on one of the three trials...
Some of the forecasters fear the consequences of an upward drift in interest rates. "If the Fed continues on its present course," says John Rutledge, president of the Claremont Economics Institute in California, "then I think that's a danger. The Fed will have to print substantial money next year to keep the economy out of a recession." But in an election year, when the Administration would plainly prefer a loose monetary policy to pump up economic growth, Greenspan could be accused of playing politics at the expense of prudence. Declares Kellner of Manufacturers Hanover: "The financial markets...
...intent of the leftward drift was to refill England's empty naves, the strategy has been an abysmal failure. When Runcie became primate, a paltry 2.7% of the population regularly attended Anglican services; slightly fewer do so today. Bennett's mistake was not in raising such unpleasant matters in public, with or without his name attached. It was in assuming that an Archbishop of Canterbury -- or any other individual -- could, merely by standing firm, reverse the powerful tide of change that has caused such anguishing problems for the Church of England...
When people talk politics, they often drift into the realm of the absurd as the evening grows old. What if Ted Kennedy ran against Richard Nixon? And later, by bedtime: What if Johnny Carson were a candidate? Now a nationwide poll for Spy magazine answers these pressing questions. Kennedy, for example, would beat Nixon decisively, 52% to 29%. As for following Reagan from Hollywood into politics, the clear favorite is Charlton Heston, followed by Paul Newman and Bill Cosby. (Carson comes in sixth.) Asked which candidates seem the "craziest," voters singled out Jesse Jackson, Pat Robertson and Alexander Haig...
...Charles Colson, the Watergate felon turned prison evangelist, in his articulate new book Kingdoms in Conflict (Morrow/Zondervan; $15.95). Colson's criticisms of the Religious Right are especially noteworthy, coming as they do from a biblically conservative Southern Baptist who joins with the movement in decrying America's continued drift toward dangerous immorality and secularism...