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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shortly thereafter, on Dec. 3, the IMF announced a $57 billion package of loans. In return, South Korea agreed to open its financial markets, lower trade barriers and revise its banking structure--moves demanded by Rubin and transmitted to the IMF. Mindful of the likely congressional reaction, the U.S. offered only to provide a small amount in loans--but not unless necessary. American officials played down the crisis. Clinton called the Asian markets a "glitch." Still, the markets kept glitching. After a brief rise, South Korea's stock market plunged again. By mid-December more than $1 billion...
...painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control of the lower houses of the federal as well as Chiapas state congresses--the caciques are panicking, and the killing has become more brazen. Opposition leaders blame police and the army for arming the sort of groups that hit Acteal...
Road-rage experts have come up with various solutions to the anarchy of our streets and highways. We could legislate it (lower speed limits, build more roads to relieve congestion), adjudicate it (more highway cops, stiffer penalties), regulate it (more elaborate licensing procedures) or educate it away (mandatory driver's ed). Others suggest an option perhaps more typical of America circa 1998: therapize...
...helped, of course, that he was a pretty common man himself. Born Usher (later changed to Arthur) Fellig in 1899, Weegee was the son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. He dropped out of high school, then moved out of his parents' Lower East Side apartment in New York City while still in his teens, spending some time homeless, scuttling through public parks, shelters and menial jobs, all the while hoping for regular work in a photo studio--an ambition he picked up while working as an assistant to an itinerant street photographer. Depending on which story you believe, his nickname...
...story is all there, a clear-eyed sketch of lower-middle-class Irish-American life, in a dozen paragraphs of bar conversation. "He had the sweetest nature," says a cousin. "He found a way to like everyone, he really did...He could always get you laughing." Another voice: "God, wasn't he funny?" The author interpolates: "Not missing the irony of the drinks in their hands and the drink that had killed him, but redeeming, perhaps, the pleasure of a drink or two, on a sad, wet afternoon, in the company of old friends, from the miserable thing that...