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...THAT THE "EVIL EMPIRE" HAS COLLAPSED, MANY U.S. conservatives are eager to convert the Chinese to capitalism. Their nostalgic solution: RADIO FREE CHINA. The project would cost $110 million to launch and $34 million a year to operate. Among its critics is Chinese dissident Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, the diary of her harsh 6 1/2-year imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. Cheng notes that millions of Chinese are already devoted to Voice of America. And the new service might "give hard-liners an excuse to crack down on dissidents...
While the general public and the Surgeon General still hold their nose, savvy marketing men have taken note of this trend. Marvin Shanken, publisher of the successful Wine Spectator, plans to launch a quarterly magazine, Cigar Aficionado, and fill it with ratings, taste tests and snob appeal. What evidence does he have that it will succeed? "I'd like to tell you I did serious market research," he admits. "But I'm a cigar lover. I just decided to do it and hoped I could find 20,000 guys out there like...
...that was gone: this Yugoslavia consists of just two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, with less than half the territory and less than half the 23.9 million people that constituted the nation of six republics a year ago. Only a handful of other countries sent representatives to honor the launch of the self-proclaimed new Yugoslavia...
Many undergraduate politicians entertain notions of someday running for office. Some have already targeted which elective office to run for and when to launch their campaigns. For these students, the 1992 presidential election shows just how pervasive "the new rules" of politics have become...
...PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN DIDN'T COME TO A complete stop last week, but it did slow down long enough for one White House hopeful to get off. David Duke announced that he would end his quest for the Republican nomination and promised not to launch a third-party bid this fall. Score one for Patrick Buchanan (assist to H. Ross Perot...