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Western advisers and East European free-marketeers often reply with metaphors: You can't cross a chasm in two jumps; you don't slow down when driving through deep mud. But now slowing down is exactly what some populist politicians in the East want to do. To ease the frightening burden on their citizens, some politicians and economists advocate government action that will keep afloat giant state enterprises, such as steel and textile mills, which have suffered especially deep drops in production and endured the heaviest layoffs. But renewed subsidies would only prolong the economic agony by keeping inefficient dinosaurs...
Inching her Chevy van across water-covered roads and mud flats last week, Mayor Jo Mapel of Bailey's Prairie, Texas, couldn't begin to guess how huge the damage bill would be. Most of the ranching hamlet (pop. 634) near the Gulf Coast lay submerged under the dark red waters of the Brazos River and adjoining creeks. Said Mapel: "Nobody's escaping without big problems. This mess is going to be with us for months...
...course, some purists may feel that something isn't truly organic unless it looks like pond sludge. Never fear. The Body Shop also carries rough-hewn products like Henna Cream Shampoo, which looks like a jar of copper-colored vaseline mixed with mud, because it contains no artificial colors or color stabilizers. The "Men's Rhassoul Mud Soap" resembles a small cement brick. For women, there's "Wheatscrub Soap", made of wheatgerm and cinnamon, which is supposed to "exfoliate" your skin, and a milk bath that contains oats and avocado oil. Apparently the Body Shop doesn't know the inside...
...capital's crime rate and improve its quality of life, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has ordered his flock to give up and pull out of the place. From his European headquarters in the Netherlands, the bearded founder of the transcendental meditation movement declared, "Everyone should leave this sea of mud. People should move to a peaceful, neat, clean atmosphere." Oddly enough, the Maharishi did not include any specific references to Congress in his remarks...
...impact of negative political ads, offers great insight into our system ((ESSAY, Dec. 9)). Perhaps the bad feelings that negative ads generate have contributed to the nation's present state of malaise. The time has come for all parties to pick up their shovels and remove the mud piles once...