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...from prison in February 1990. But the organization has genuinely dismayed many South Africans with its increasingly strident demands, its role in township violence, its muddled ideas about nationalizing parts of the economy and its maddening bureaucratic sluggishness. Not long ago, A.N.C. leaders could be heard arguing that the government should simply hand over power. Now it is reasonable to wonder if the organization, even with its large number of sympathizers, could win a democratic election when one is finally held. And if the A.N.C. did come to power, would it be fit to govern...
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...Orange and Osceola counties complain that the area lacks a sense of community responsibility. "It's a lot easier to pull for the hometown team than to volunteer at a hospital," says Linda Chapin, chairman of Orange County. Says her counterpart in Osceola, Jim Swan: "It's hard to govern when you have no clear idea what kind of place a place wants...
...French have always likened their republic to an imaginary woman, Marianne, but have never allowed a real one to govern it. Last week, in a bold attempt to revive France's sluggish economy and give new zest to his flagging Socialist regime, President Francois Mitterrand named longtime political associate Edith Cresson, 57, an aggressive booster of French industry, as the nation's first woman Prime Minister...
...laws of physics that says time cannot run backward. Einstein's equations of motion work equally well, mathematically, when the direction of time is reversed. Yet no one has ever been able to travel back in time. Theoretical physicists find the situation intriguing: if the laws that govern nature really permit time reversal, there should somehow be a way to achieve it. Now a theorist at Princeton University has come up with a way that travel into the past might, in principle, be accomplished, even if it may not be practical...