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WHILE these stories certainly reveal a great deal about America and the people who live here, they do start to sound a little bit corny after a while. (If you read More Like Us in a very still room, you can hear "God Bless America" playing softly in the background.) Still, the American Dream is a hard thing to write about without doing too much flag-waving, and Fallows manages to survive with some degree of objective credibility when he writes about these people who have made the American Dream come true for them...
After tolerating an anything-goes climate in business during most of the 1980s, "people are starting to demand that corporations live up to the expectations that we have of them as citizens," says Alice Tepper Marlin, executive director of the Manhattan-based Council on Economic Priorities. While most Americans still feel confident about the economy and business in general, consumers have become increasingly aggressive in taking corporations to task for misbehavior and irresponsibility. Among the concerns: investment in South Africa, environmental pollution, hazardous products, offensive TV programming and testing on animals. Today's campaigners for corporate accountability, unlike those...
While many companies have been trying to live up to higher standards, industrial leaders face competing demands on their attention and resources. Executives are already struggling to keep up with foreign rivals, manage their debt and navigate safe passage through a flagging economy. Even so, consumers and politicians are getting their message across with growing earnestness and skill. Declares Nader: "The '90s will make the '60s pale into insignificance in terms of the reform drive to clean up the fraud, waste, abuse and crimes of many corporations." Corporate responsibility will no longer be a fringe benefit but an integral part...
...Everything was at a boil," she felt, "and I couldn't stay away." Eventually Wilentz quit her job as a TIME staff writer to live in Haiti for nearly two years. The end result, The Rainy Season, is a portrait of post- Duvalier Haiti that verges on the Didionesque. Which is to say, it has sharply observed accounts of such local color as voodoo and zombis, and a tone of cool detachment mixed with scorn for the social wreckage spawned by even well-intentioned American meddling. Yet at its narrative best The Rainy Season is the kind of world-class...
Haiti, Wilentz writes, is a land where "misery walked around the place like a live being." For the country's poor, Duvalier's end meant not liberty but new masters: generals who promised elections that were scarred by terror, intimidation and fraud...