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...countries, Square One is a welcome addition. Aimed at eight-to-twelve-year-olds, it seeks to explain such basic concepts as percentages and probability and show how math can be used to solve everyday problems. The lessons are deftly couched in a fast-paced series of sketches that mimic what children know best: other TV shows...
...almost as if the Soviets and Americans who met last week in Vienna to pick up where they had left off on arms control at the Iceland summit also decided to mimic the outcome at Reykjavik. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George Shultz started the talks with friendly smiles and expressions of hope. Then, two days later, they emerged frustrated, each blaming the other for their failure to break the Reykjavik stalemate. Before Shevardnadze boarded a plane back to Moscow, he said the talks had left him with a "bitter taste." Declared Secretary Shultz...
Credo: there are real problems in Latin America--war, hunger, anarchy and Catholicism. The novel is an expansive, flexible literary form. It can mimic the diffuse, confusing format of a world run amok...
Recent short stories in America are chronicling the American malaise of boredom. In much the same way that Latin American writers have made the novel a symbol of the fantastic convolutions and discombobulations of their history, American short story writers choose their form to mimic the small problems that beset us. A novel about boredom would be boring...
...tout his newly-refurbished party apparatus. After he did away with the messy minority caucuses and added the Policy Commission, I co-authored a position paper to help create a new image for the Democrats. But I wrote it on the naive assumption that they were not looking to mimic Ronald Reagan's message, but to create a new one they could actually call their own. Silly...