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Will anything work? The first Administration initiative -- a package of modest diplomatic measures announced on Feb. 10 -- is universally seen as a bust. Not only have negotiations on Bosnia failed but Serbian aggression has become even more brutal and more successful...
...flaky, perhaps, as Libby Gelman-Waxner, the yenta film critic whose column appears in Premiere magazine. Rudnick denies he is Libby: "She is a genius. I wouldn't dream of taking credit for work of that caliber." He is too modest; the Rudnick voice can be heard in every purring line. Example: "Howards End transported me, the way movies and catalogs are supposed to; I wanted to call up and order Emma's life, Helena's skin and all the jewelry...
...reverse that trend is to discourage the use of fossil fuels by raising energy taxes. Clinton has already proposed a tax on various forms of energy that would take the country about a quarter of the way to the target for carbon dioxide reduction. But even this modest proposal is running into opposition, and it is hard to imagine a more ambitious tax getting anywhere on Capitol Hill...
Unapologetic about his identity today, Mixner appears decidedly conventional. Black cowboy boots are the only modest eccentricity in a wardrobe full of dark suits, crisp white shirts and suspenders to match his muted ties. He stands 6 ft. 1 in., and his weight fluctuates by a hundred pounds or more from year to year. His high-tech apartment-cum-office is decorated with a peace poster from the Eugene McCarthy campaign, which introduced him to Clinton, and framed photos of himself with the President and the First Lady...
Wall Street reacted quickly; Intel stock dropped 11% in one day. But the market was clearly overreacting. Intel is still the world's largest 486 maker and will continue to be so -- by far. Given its comparatively modest manufacturing capacity, "AMD is going to be limited to 5% of the market share," predicts Montgomery Securities analyst Thomas Thornhill. Perhaps more important, Intel has already launched the next generation chip, the Pentium, destined to leave the 486 in the dust...