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...home and looking for someone to blame for the greed spawned by the conservative revolution of the '80s. They wanted to talk about domestic issues: health care, education and, of course, jobs. To distinguish himself from the perceived heartlessness of his predecessor, the incumbent called for a kinder, gentler nation. It was a nice touch, if somewhat undermined by the negative campaign tactics he used to needle his main challenger, a hardworking and agile -- maybe too agile -- politician who called for "change" at every turn and struck voters as not entirely trustworthy. The race was a cliff-hanger right...
Guess what? The economy, still allergic to Belaunde, went blooey again. When the kinder, gentler APRA went head to head with Belaunde in 1985, it thrashed him. APRA's Alan Garcia, a populist who was liked but not as revered as el Jefe had been, campaigned on such perennially crowd-pleasing issues as screwing the International Monetary Fund and not paying off Peru's debts...
Morita's proposals derive from his concern about the antagonism generated by Japan's aggressive trade policies abroad. He believes that kinder, fairer, gentler corporations would contribute to the harmony of the world as well as make the lives of Japanese workers better. Other economists and businessmen believe Japanese corporations must change because of the forces unleashed by the collapse of the stock and real estate markets...
...technology to diagnose injuries from knife wounds and automobile crashes. Soon the team expects to move from diagnosis to laparoscopic repair of tears to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Eventually, if doctors become convinced that operations performed in this manner do not inadvertently spread malignant cells, this kinder, gentler surgery will touch the lives of an even larger group of people: cancer patients...
...young captain of the engineers who penned the words on a single, inspired April night, first surfaced three years ago. French human-rights advocate Abbe Pierre called for the song to be altered from "words of hate to a message of love." The abbe's appeal for a kinder, gentler version received only lukewarm support until last month, when the image of an innocent 10-year-old girl warbling "Aux armes, citoyens!" at the Olympic Games struck a note of incongruity that set off a national debate...