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...states to cut off trade and financial dealings with Iraq. Only nine days later, George Bush said in a speech at the Pentagon, "Sanctions are working." But last month Secretary of State James Baker was telling the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "They haven't worked." Behind this seeming flip-flop were differing interpretations of what it means for sanctions to work...
Fears of war and recession dampen holiday spirits. -- The states struggle to balance their budgets. -- A controversial flip-flop over minority scholarships greets a new Education Secretary...
Universal health care, one of socialism's main selling points, is a complete flop. "Health care" in the Soviet Union means rat-infested hospitals, minimal service and, in some places, no running water. Anything better requires a generous and well-placed bribe...
...Criterion and NY: The City Journal, a new quarterly of urban affairs. "We're not a unified sect," insists Teachout, adding that they do have one tenet in common: "The political and intellectual legacies of our older brothers and sisters, the baby boomers of the '60s, were a flop, a failure, a disaster." He sums up those legacies as "stale '60s romanticism, wan '70s disillusion, tedious '80s whining...
...what's new -- and increasingly troublesome -- is his reliance on retreaded riffs and shopworn memories. Graffiti Bridge, the movie for which the album is the sound track, looks loopy, narcissistic and generally dispirited. It continues Prince's unrequited love affair with the cinema that began with his 1986 flop Under the Cherry Moon...