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Once ignited, a sense of optimism (like pessimism) can be self-fulfilling: the U.S. has cheered up partly because enough Americans willed such a change. It is the power of positive thinking writ large. "Magic takes over from reason at such times," wrote Author Gail Sheehy last month in a...
Fulfilling a yen to keep in touch while airborne
Roger Cobb (Steve Martin) has this little problem: the spirit of a dead woman inhabits and controls the right side of his body. The semitranssexual dilemma is no miracle of genetic engineering but rather a goof-up of Oriental mysticism. Seems that Roger, a 38-year-old lawyer drifting through...
They soon became a self-fulfilling prophecy. The rumors, first published by the Commodity News Service and then repeated around the world, prompted many foreign depositors to begin taking their money out of Continental. The FDIC arranged emergency infusions of cash and pushed Continental to find a merger partner. A...
The U.S., of course, neither can nor should give any guarantees against demonstrations or defections. To answer any legitimate Soviet worries, however, Ueberroth and Juan Antonio Samaranch, the Spanish diplomat who heads the International Olympic Committee, flew from the Manhattan torch-carrying ceremony to Washington for a prearranged meeting with...