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Even if Perot granted that the plummeting peso is not itself an indictment of NAFTA (don't hold your breath), he would have his fallback claim: after the plunge, NAFTA's perils will loom large. Certainly a weakened peso may encourage a net flow of cash southward. And though devaluation would have had the same effect in a pre-NAFTA world, NAFTA's lower trade barriers would magnify it. But whether this is bad news depends on which side of the NAFTA debate you bought to begin with: Is Mexico's gain America's loss, or is trade...
This past October 4 marked the 20th anniversary of poet Anne Sexton's suicide. Two decades later, her extraordinary life and death still loom large, haunting those who knew her personally and intriguing those who only know her through her work. In a courageous attempt to confront the burden of her mother's legacy and appease her own demons, author Linda Gray Sexton '75 has released her own memoirs, Searching for Mercy Street. Though Gray Sexton does not hesitate to point the proverbial finger at her mother, blaming her for a life out of a control, her cathartic opus...
...uncharacteristically blunt in outlining the economics behind the mission to restore democracy. "The American people have already expended almost $200 million to support them [Haitian refugees], to maintain the economic embargo and the prospect of millions and millions more being spent every month for an indefinite period of time loom ahead unless...
Harvard University dwarfs its students. Its research facilities loom just as large in reputation as its educational system. As a first-year student, you are one in thousands--in some ways, Harvard has been waiting 358 years to present you with a superior experience. But don't make the mistake of thinking Harvard is here to serve...
...readers, however, we aren't all that upset to see Ray go. Fisher gets too gooey with her language when she's in love and treads dangerously close to being laughable. "The idea of him did not loom larger, but the reality, the quiet force of him, stole into her sideways one night when she lay next to him and made its hungry home there...