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Although the party retained two House seats in special elections in Texas and California last week, the Democrats have no clearly enunciated national agenda and, perhaps worse, no one to enunciate it. To a notable lack of enthusiasm, Brown nominated himself for the role. More logical choices are House Speaker Tom Foley and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, since the Democrat-controlled Congress is where differences between the parties can be most sharply defined. But both leaders are cautious and, to their critics, the kind of nice guys who don't win pennants. Last week showed...
...impetus for the tutoring scheme came from Donald Davis, chairman of Stanley Works, the Connecticut-based toolmaker. In a visit to Poland in the early 1980s, says he, "I was overwhelmed by the lack of management know- how." Davis began organizing the program almost two years ago with the help of the International Executive Service Corps, which sends retired managers to help businesses in developing countries. Davis hopes to organize ten visiting-manager projects this year and as many...
...outstrip what is available back home, but East Germany enjoys the best living standard of any East European country. Most of the refugees, however, define a better life in terms that cannot be measured in deutsche marks. Of those polled, almost three-quarters said they were driven by the lack of freedom of expression and travel. Almost as many said they wanted more personal responsibility for their own destiny. As Heide Zitzmann, 37, a schoolteacher, summed it up, "I felt buried alive...
Artistically, A Dry White Season may aspire to less than the previous movies, since it lacks both the epic ambition of Richard Attenborough's Freedom and the psychological delicacy of Chris Menges' World. Emotionally, however, it has a force unmatched by the other movies on this subject. For the new film does not stir you to thought (if you still need to think over apartheid, you are probably brain damaged) or sympathy (if you still lack compassion for South Africa's blacks, you probably need a heart implant). It stirs you to outrage...
Randy Bass was one of the most successful foreigners to play in Japan, but his lack of wa nonetheless did him in. A towering left-handed batter who once played for the San Diego Padres, Bass hit 54 homers for the Hanshin Tigers in 1985, and that year helped his team win the Japan Series. Then in May 1988, the idolized Bass left Japan to be with his son, who was undergoing brain surgery in the U.S. The team slumped, and Bass's absence offended many Japanese; they could not forgive him. The Tigers cut him and then quibbled over...