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...course, such logic is most unwelcome to MADD, a modern-day reincarnation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. To them, the issue is a simple moral equation; alcohol is bad, and cracking down on it can't help but be good...
...order to get into Clinton's spotlight, Flynn has had to compromise his constituents. If Flynn keeps up his hands-off approach, other, more visible areas of the city may crash and burn, forcing Bostonians to ask whether Flynn really is a modern-day Honey Fitz...
...Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Zhuge Liang, the master mind," says a Chinese aphorism. To speed up Deng Xiaoping's market-style reforms, China's pragmatic leaders are tapping the mind of a modern-day Zhuge Liang: University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Klein. The American Nobel laureate in economics in 1980 was appointed as an adviser to the State Planning Commission, which oversees the industrial sector. They hope Klein's wisdom can help them build a "socialist market economy," Deng's newest oxymoron...
...Bill Clinton, such action would be simple and tantalizing. With the assistance of a Democratic Congress, he would be on his way to becoming a modern-day picture of governmental responsiveness and efficiency...
...BEEN CALLED BOTH A dictatorial "monster" and a modern-day Jose Marti, | determined to vanquish Fidel Castro just as Marti battled Spain to free Cuba a century ago. Miami millionaire Jorge Mas Canosa is perhaps the most influential Cuban outside Havana. Over the past decade, he has built the Cuban American National Foundation, a lobby group representing Miami's Cuban exiles, into a muscular bullyboy capable of swaying U.S. foreign policy and pressuring governments from Moscow to Mexico City...