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...author says wryly, but "light blue." Though the commotion of being abruptly famous feels "like I've backed into some bizarre machinery," her professional life is blissful now. This is not so much due to the shelfful of literary prizes she has collected this year (the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Heartland and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, as well as last week's honor) as to the fact that she doesn't have to write any more short stories. "I had a terrible time writing them," she says. "Editors always complained -- 'You put too much in; you have too many...
...State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...
This booming two-way commerce reflects a recent transformation that has brought free markets to Mexico. The impact extends far beyond border towns and deep into the American heartland, which sends Mexican buyers everything from soybeans to Chevrolets. Since Mexico began lowering its trade barriers, annual U.S. exports to the Latin American country have more than tripled, to nearly $41 billion. That has turned a U.S. trade deficit with Mexico of $5.2 billion in 1986 into a $4.7 billion surplus last year. "Almost all the real effects of NAFTA have already happened," says Paul Krugman, an M.I.T. economist. "Mexico...
...first time in years. The new resident of Mission Hill, KS, has been true to the standard he set for himself in San Francisco by resurrecting a Kansas City offense that was 23rd in the league last season. Here's to deciding to settle down in the heartland...
LIKE A TROUBADOUR ADRIFT ON the blue highways of America, John Mellencamp has hitched his muse to the hopes and broken dreams of the heartland. Even before the mid-'80s, when he renounced the pop artifice of his John Cougar past and took back his given name, he had found his calling as a spinner of hook-laden odes to the ordinary man. Early hits that hinted at the darker dimensions of suburbia, like Jack and Diane and Pink Houses, sold millions and made Mellencamp an MTV star. On later albums, like Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee...