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...Texas coast while Congress dithers over a bill to create rapid-response cleanup teams. Even the President admits the need for a budget-and-tax compromise, but a heralded bipartisan summit has so far failed to produce even an agreement on how large the federal deficit really is. Flagrant political scandals -- most notably, craven sellouts by lawmakers to the savings and loan industry -- raise new calls for campaign reforms, but the effort is going nowhere. The decline of the nation's schools produces gusts of rhetoric but not one serious education reform...
...Blades, something constructive includes the possibility of someday running for President of Panama. The U.S. invasion of his country, which Blades denounces as a "flagrant transgression of international law," has only increased his determination to enter political life. Yet he is aware that his chances of electoral success hinge on cultivating a broad-based constituency. "I've always made it clear that I wasn't playing the Latin version of Jesus. I need local support for my position...
...concern is that the art market be a credible place," says Ainslie, explaining why he was dropping the loan arrangement he had until recently so staunchly defended. If anything had cast doubts on the market's credibility, it was news that Sotheby's most flagrant loan deal seemed to be coming unraveled. As has been rumored for months, the world's most expensive painting, Van Gogh's Irises, appears to be headed back on the market...
...public opinion as something better than imperialistic bullying. One indication: Peru, which suspended joint antidrug actions with the U.S. two weeks ago as a sign of outrage at the invasion, quietly resumed them last week. However, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution that called the Panamanian invasion a "flagrant violation of international...
...have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing drugs as the sole cause of their children's problems, rather than as a symptom of family-wide crisis...