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...mode of westerns like The Wild Bunch, Lonesome Dove notes the passing of an era. "Durn people makin' towns everywhere," says McCrae. "It's our fault too. We chased out the Indians . . . hung all the good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain...
...check. A $5 per bbl. drop in the price of oil typically translates into a 1% fall in U.S. consumer prices. Economists are predicting that U.S. inflation could reach 5% next year, vs. an estimated 4.5% for 1988. But if oil drops below $12 per bbl., says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, inflation could ease slightly instead of rising...
...enemy. Coming from the underclass, such individuals often feel they have no real opportunity to attain conventional standards of success or happiness, writes Rhodes scholar Jay MacLeod '83-'84, who was a PBH officer during his undergraduate years. In his book on disadvantaged Boston-area youth, Ain't No Makin' It, MacLeod argues that such hopelessness leaves people disconnected from mainstream society. Inmates agree, saying they feel shunned and forgotten. "No one's trying to do shit for us," says prisoner Ronnie Mack...
...party, he constitutes something of an intelligence test for America. With his unashamed assertion of who he is, he flirts with prejudice, daring it out of its cave. He is the only presidential candidate who can say ain't without being considered ignorant except by the ignorant: "We makin' what ain't nobody buyin'." More than most politicians, he has a sense of the absurd in a campaign, and cannot resist making jokes as well as history (as he proved during his surreal day with Silo Sam). Though he has resolved not to criticize other Democrats, an occasional mocking touch...
...home-equity loan. Homeowners who borrow too heavily could lose their houses if a recession left them out of a job and unable to make payments. "The real irony will be if everyone's Rock of Gibraltar asset turns out to be a house of cards," says John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...