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...short term, he did wonders for the U.S. economy, but now we are saddled with the bill," says Ravi Batra, an economist at Southern Methodist University and author of a new polemic, Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy. That's a harsh verdict. But if Alan Greenspan misses the universal acclaim he once enjoyed, he may have only himself to blame. It was Greenspan, after all, who famously warned about the perils of irrational exuberance...
Graham said she values Kumin as “a woman in a man’s medium—a harsh critic in a ladylike guise...
Many of the politicized topics that became major themes in Kumin’s poetry gain fresh relevance in light of newly conservative politics, Graham noted, including her harsh attacks on Christian fundamentalism and her strong appreciation of nature...
...months later, the President adopted a pragmatic course that belied his hostile words: he lifted the ineffective grain embargo that Jimmy Carter had imposed on Soviet trade after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Ever since, the Administration's policy toward the Soviet Union has had a typically Reaganesque twist: harsh ideological rhetoric tempered by moves rooted in an emerging realism. The inconsistency has caused relations between the two superpowers to blow hot and cold. Mostly, they have blown cold...
...detainees complained that they were shunted from location to location with their eyes closed and their head between their legs, then put in small, dark cells. The Sandinistas' harsh questions reportedly delved into the detainees' private lives and the internal workings of the U.S. embassy. All were accused of being CIA plants and of being "counterrevolutionaries" because they worked for the U.S. Washington responded by lodging a sharp diplomatic protest. The Sandinistas promptly issued a statement declaring that the interrogations were "strictly internal" and therefore "outside the sphere of diplomatic relations...