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Like most religions, the N.R.A. must contend with heretics and schisms. And like many empires, it may not be as imposing as it looks. Some N.R.A. members complain that the organization is in the grip of extremists who have turned off the public, while others grumble that the pinstripe leadership in Washington has grown too accommodating. Hard-liners have split off to form their own bristling grouplets, while constant maneuvering has become a fact of life among the factions on the N.R.A.'s 75-member board. With more than 50 state and local gun-control bills awaiting action around...
...Modrow's grip on power is slipping, the authority of Rumania's new government seems to be splintering completely. Two weeks ago, 1,000 demonstrators converged on the headquarters of the ruling National Salvation Front in Bucharest, screaming, "Death for Communists!" The Front, whose eleven-member ruling board is made up entirely of former party members, immediately outlawed the Communist Party...
...environment is essential to McGuane, for both his peace of mind and his work. "I feel strongly that writers need to be some place," he says. "The real thing, the real job of artists of any kind is to somehow seize the life you're having in an unrelinquishing grip." McGuane is sure to continue doing exactly that. But, just in case, he keeps his epitaph handy. His eyes gleam with mischief as he repeats it: "No stone unturned -- except this...
...great variety of symptoms that confronted the Communists of East Germany and Czechoslovakia last week were not morbid, but they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just weeks ago has loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after...
What will work? Only policies the West takes for granted but that could weaken Gorbachev's grip on power -- lifting price controls, encouraging more entrepreneurism, decentralizing economic decision making...