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Endara, a political disciple of the late Panamanian President Arnulfo Arias, ran a spirited campaign in the three months before the May 7 voting. Washington funneled some $10 million in campaign funds to the opposition, evidently hoping that if Endara and his running mates won, Noriega would be forced to reach an accommodation with them. As Panamanians turned out in large numbers to cast their ballots, Endara had reason to be confident: polls showed he was favored over Duque by at least 2 to 1 and perhaps by as much as 3 to 1. But Noriega apparently deluded himself into...
...Summer of '49 is much enhanced by the author's ruminations about the era. He captures both the glamour and the quaintness of the late '40s, when the corner bar, the movie palace and the ball park were the major entertainment centers. The new age of expansion clubs and megasalaries was coming on fast. Though TV was in the wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored...
Young Parent can barely wait to break out of Medford, Mass., during the late '50s. Outwardly he appears to have been quite ordinary: an altar boy who liked to plink at bottles with his .22-cal Mossberg. Yet his mind has been jump-started by books, especially Dante's The Divine Comedy. "It was not just the blood and gore," he tells a friendly parish priest, "but that the people in Hell seemed real; the ones in Purgatory and Paradise were wordy and unbelievable...
...swelling the red ink to as much as $175 billion. "Using monetary policy to slow the economy is a poor second-best solution," says David Rolley, a senior economist at the Wall Street firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert. "Cutting the budget deficit is the proper tool. But it is late...
...since 1977. Along the way it has become one of the few necessary art institutions to be born in the U.S. in the past 15 years. Necessary because, unlike the muddle of private and semiprivate vanity museums full of outsize contemporary art foisted on the American public in the late '80s, the Drawing Center really does stand for quality -- as against what is only spectacular or "relevant." It has never done a less than interesting show. Its new one, "Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings" (through July 22), curated by the English art historian John Harris, is one of its best...