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...dubious honor for the last remaining superpower, but the U.S. can now claim to be the bargain basement of the world. Signs of this distinction are everywhere this summer -- atop the Empire State Building, for instance, where Klaus Graumann, 27, a molecular biologist from Austria, is snapping pictures with his just acquired Olympus camera, wearing jeans, a polo shirt and running shoes also bought during his visit. "We say, 'O.K., we've seen the museums. Let's get a sandwich and go to the department store,' " notes Graumann...
Poor chap. He doesn't have much in the way of inner resources. Aside from the good reflexes that make him handy with a revolver, all he has to go on is some dubious advice from his moralizing father (Gene Hackman): put your trust in blood kin and in the law. What Earp sees in his brothers is impossible to say, since they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another...
...Rostenkowski case is especially painful because it joins a roll call of recent roguery. The Keating Five, the congressional post office, the House bank, the dubious book scheme of House Speaker Jim Wright -- that litany is at least partly the result of new regulations that Congress has imposed on itself. Even so, will voters care that tighter rules and closer scrutiny are part of the reason? Probably...
...well-respected chemistry professor had the privilege of sharing Esquire Magazine's Most Dubious Achievement award with John DeLorean...
...senior State Department official chose to pretend that it was, hoping to endow this minor action with some real, if dubious, importance in helping satisfy U.S. demands for "significant progress" in China's human-rights record. His reaction was one of a number of clues that President Clinton has decided against cracking down hard on China by cutting back trade. Another sign was a secret visit to Beijing by a special envoy, former Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost; his job reportedly was to coax the Chinese leaders into other concessions that the White House could seize on to justify that...