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With many state budgets strained and many corporations in a downsizing mode, conflicts over job-development subsidies are white-hot. Critics denounce incentives as welfare for private enterprise that isn't paying off. "This is an issue whose time has come because too many giveaways are gnawing away at the tax base of our communities," says Jim Benn, executive director of the Federation for Industrial Retention and Renewal, a grass-roots research group in Chicago. "Teachers and firemen are being laid off, and homeowners and small businesses are getting stuck with even more of the burden...
...advocates of containment are led by an odd-bedfellow alliance of human-rights activists and old cold warriors. "Both [Senator Edward] Kennedy and [Senator Jesse] Helms are in a pro-Taiwan mode," says a senior U.S. official, "the former because of China's appalling human-rights record, the latter because Taiwan is the last anticommunist country in the world." Angered by what they interpret as Beijing's uncompromising, uncooperative behavior, the containment forces are convinced China is a bully that needs to be disciplined, not indulged. They urge that the U.S. get tough and stop acquiescing. Says former Secretary...
Examine the politics of disconnection. The 1996 campaign has only hinted at the number of Americans who, disgruntled and disillusioned (even if self-pityingly so), have withdrawn into a passive-aggressive political mode: protest for its own sake. "We're gonna fight until hell freezes over," bellows Pat Buchanan, "and then we're gonna fight on the ice!" Disenchantment, whether idealistic or merely snarling, has produced a permanent American political out group (Buchananites, Perot voters and a much larger constituency of nonvoters) whose unhappiness erupts in periodic aneurysms and whose message to the political process is the passive aggressive...
Here crystallization means not so much synthesis and formation as a mode of representation in which objects are viewed as though through a crystal. His images, especially in "Bird Cloud" (1926), appear refracted. Rather than showing various perspectives at once as the Cubists attempted to do, Feininger merely wanted to accentuate and flatten light planes, exaggerating them like a caricaturist would and rendering each with a different solid block of color before reassembling the pieces...
WITH FOUR MONTHS TO GO until the Russian presidential vote, Boris Yeltsin is in full campaign mode and is harping on the central issue of the election: the future of economic reform. YELTSIN IS REFORMS say his banners. Reform was his theme last Friday, when he appeared before a joint session of the parliament to report on the state of the nation. The pain that the shift to a market economy has inflicted on some Russians, he said, was the fault of incompetent officials who had somehow undone his good intentions. Economic liberalization would continue, he promised, but from...