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...initially had broad backing. But support waned this fall, when the Administration took a tough stance on free trade and also succeeded in driving down the dollar with the help of other industrial powers. House opponents of the bill argued that the legislation would invite retaliation from countries that import U.S. goods. Nonetheless, the bill's backers feel that Congress, by passing the legislation, has sent a powerful message to foreign nations that they must trade fairly or face U.S. sanctions...
...quarantining of all gays, in the wake of Sisyphist slogans like "Defense of the Soviet Union Begins in Central America!," "Vietnam was a Victory!!," and "Defend the Deformed Workers' State Against Jewish Dissidents!!!," I have brought myself to make a personal decision which is quite possibly of world-historical import. I can no longer stand idly by and allow my fellow students to suffer under the dastardly delusions spawned by Harvard's most attention-getting speechifiers...
...network series as United States and Breaking Away. Nickelodeon, the children's channel, is trying to attract older viewers at night with reruns of chestnuts like The Donna Reed Show and Route 66. Even MTV now interrupts its playlist of rock videos with a sitcom on Sunday nights, an import from Britain called The Young Ones...
...Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic way, fingering seven of the 22 defendants in the courtroom as Mafia members involved in a conspiracy to import and sell $1.6 million worth of heroin...
Nissenson, whose previous fiction (My Own Ground, A Pile of Stones) dealt almost exclusively with Jewish subjects, extends his range with this novel. He never steps out of character to make any of its burdens explicit. Keene does not know the meaning or historical import of the events he jots down in what he calls his "Waste Book." No longer able to believe in heavenly salvation, he does think of his journal as "my hope of Immortality." It will take a few decades to reach a firm verdict, but a first reading of The Tree of Life strongly suggests that...