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...dramatic change that should become the new starting point for thinking about the country. What Naipaul does not grapple with is the question of whether India can survive burning so hotly. Hindu-Muslim conflicts are on the rise; violent secessionist movements have paralyzed three states; caste warfare threatens to erupt around the country. Naipaul barely touches on that drift to anarchy, but he helps us understand...
...about living with their illness, not dying from it. To prove the point, they resolutely lead active and productive lives. Later, however, many will discover that this insidious disease has mocked their efforts to control it. Like a dormant volcano, diabetes can feign slumber for many years, only to erupt with sudden savagery...
...proponents argue that uneven and often mediocre state regulation is no worse than consistently mediocre federal regulation would be, and that the current furor in Congress has snapped state regulators to attention. But where it's really frightening, and where any crisis, if we get one, is likely to erupt, is in reinsurance, an almost entirely unregulated field of undisclosed relationships crisscrossing national boundaries...
American democracy may be the inspiration of the world, but the transcendent spirit has dismally failed to uplift U.S. elections. Once again this year, politics has degenerated into a duel of negative TV spots, even before the desperation tactics that usually erupt in late October. In California, a barrage of blistering commercials in the Governor's race conveys the impression that Charles Keating was a piker in the S&L scandal compared with Republican Pete Wilson and Democrat Dianne Feinstein. Texas voters are so dispirited by the ugliness of the gubernatorial shoot-out that both candidates probably could be defeated...
...theory is that Mikhail Gorbachev wants extra military muscle available in case food riots erupt. If true, that would constitute the most startling indication yet of the President's weakening authority; Gorbachev the reformer would be turning to the largely reform-resistant military to keep him in power...