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Zedillo, who was hurriedly designated the P.R.I.'s presidential candidate last year after the party's first choice, Luis Donaldo Colosio, was assassinated, could be forgiven if he feels as if he has fallen through a trapdoor. He took office a few days before a financial crisis erupted that his predecessor, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, had done little to prepare either Zedillo or the nation for. But Zedillo's performance so far has not reassured the foreign-government officials and financiers who will have to bail Mexico out. The Clinton Administration, says a Senate staff member who regularly deals with...
After 8,000 or so years of civilization, people can be forgiven for worrying that most of the possibilities for human experience have been exhausted. To the contrary, argues Oxford historian Theodore Zeldin, things have just started to get interesting. In An Intimate History of Humanity (HarperCollins; 488 pages; $25), he offers a quirky but intellectually dazzling view of our past and future by discussing such subjects as the different ways that nations have tried to conquer fear, the reason that humanity has made more progress in cooking than in making love, and the history of conversation. This last subject...
...commercial documentaries have been overlooked. Also unexpected, Ressner says, were the best picture nod for "Shawshank," a "dank prison film with a unwieldy title," and Woody Allen's best director nomination for "Bullets Over Broadway." Says Ressner: "It seems as though it's a 'Welcome back Woody, all is forgiven' vote...
...rushed in not only to combat the rebels but also to help improve the life of peasants by building clinics, schools and roads. Government public works projects picked up speed. President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon even resumed negotiations. Reacting to those talks, guerrilla leader Comandante Tacho may be forgiven if he sounds a bit smug when he declares, ``Mr. Zedillo has said positive things...
...chance for me to actually go to a museum without getting on the T and going to the [Museum of Fine Arts]," he says. "I would never have forgiven myself for not going...