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...could not be more pleased. "Last year I gave my granddaughter a talking doll called Heather that cost $125," says Margaret Simpson, 71. "She was no good whatsoever. My daughter had to take her to the doll hospital for an $85 limbs transplant." The only high- tech toy to flourish is Japan's Nintendo video system, whose U.S. sales could top $1.7 billion this year, making it the No. 1 seller...
Parties of the left that plausibly present themselves as nationalist parties can survive, even flourish. Those that cannot, flounder. American Democrats began absorbing that lesson four years ago. Having sought vainly for some new, galvanizing social vision in the New Deal-Fair Deal-New Frontier tradition, and having found that mere nostalgic invocation of the past does not work, they figured they had better retake the flag...
...half of our electorate chose not to vote this year--a shocking condemnation of our democracy. To bring them back in, symbols must be replaced with substance, and candidates must back their statements with compelling reasons, not ad hominem arguments. It is in this climate that liberal democracy will flourish, when the competition of ideas stimulates national reflection. One major roadblock to any kind of enlightened discourse is the prevalence of television ads as the primary conduit between the candidate and the public...
...Life" Jean-Claude Duvalier into exile. Since then, the government has changed hands three times, most recently last month, when a coup installed the regime of Lieut. General Prosper Avril. No matter how good Avril's intentions are, however, Haiti is so dirt poor, literally, that it may never flourish again...
...preyed upon. Those with a bit of land are hesitant to improve it for fear of attracting the attention of covetous gros negs, who often hire corrupt lawyers to steal the land on one pretext or another. The rural police, notaries and Tonton Macoutes also seize property with a flourish of phony documents and a bag of city tricks. Even those who try to help the peasants often end up hurting them. When African swine fever hit the pig population of Haiti several years ago, Haitian authorities, under U.S. insistence, slaughtered all the peasants' hardy black Creole pigs. Unable...