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...renewed confidence in Europe, however, a few strains of Europessimism linger. Europeans realize that in the mid-1980s their exports to the U.S. received a mighty boost from the rise in the value of the dollar, which made imports less expensive for American consumers and businesses. Now that the dollar has taken a dive, Europe's export industries are feeling pressure once again. Another concern is sluggish investment. Despite healthy earnings, many of Europe's companies are not devoting enough money to modernizing and expanding factories. Instead, firms are stashing cash in high- yielding money-market securities or buying...
Though this may sound like Graham Greene land, Moore does not often linger over moral debates or digressions. Within a few pages of the novel's opening, Bem has been attacked by would-be assassins, abducted by men who claim to be protecting him and, having made his escape, reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch...
...tournament will linger for a long time...
Such are the questions that linger in the air as 50 people sprawl on pillows inside one of Esalen's mirrored conference rooms, gathering one radiant week for a five-day seminar called "Our Myth-Body to Live By." The topic is vintage Esalen: an attempt to marry impulses physical and metaphysical. So too are the seminar leaders: Joseph Campbell, mythologer supreme and godfather to many a '60s quester, and Chungliang Al Huang, a Chinese-born master of Tai Chi. For six hours each day, the octogenarian Campbell sits cross-legged on the floor and improvises passionate lectures about Navajo...
Despite the wealth of contenders, the sighs of unrequited love are likely to linger, especially among Democrats. Dreamy scenarios will be spun about luring one of the reluctant warriors into the fray, though it is already too late for a new entry to organize for the early primaries. Those could of course transform one or two of the active dwarfs into giants. But if that does not happen, the murmurs about Nunn or Cuomo or Bradley sweeping in and brokering their way to victory could start up anew...