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...People have to be responsible when they are serving themselves. Don't reach into that carrot stick pan with your hands," Miller says...
...will soon replace their local money with one currency--the euro. This monetary union, which is to begin Jan. 1, 1999, will be the most important event to occur in the international financial system since the collapse of the fixed-exchange-rate system in the early 1970s. An independent Pan-European central bank will determine how much money to create and will set a single short-term interest rate for all member countries. But an interest rate that curbs inflation won't do much to create jobs during the highest European unemployment since World War II. If confidence...
...short story "Powder"--which centers on a father and son's attempts at making their way home for Christmas Eve in the midst of a snowstorm. The urgency of memory, the need to mediate all the past's heart-break and humor, infuses Wolff's story with dead-pan beauty. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver's classic "Popular Mechanics" (minus the bloody conclusion) in terms of its powerful brevity, "Powder" is the best work included in the anthology...
...this money... I'm not complaining, you know. But I mean, why is it all happening to me? And if people are expecting this much, will they be mad if I let them down? I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I don't want to lose...
...because the biggest obstacles to killing Saddam aren't moral or legal but practical. It's not smart for the U.S., which has a huge stake in world order, to be seen as resorting to a little terror of its own. Unintended consequences often flow from clever plans. Recall Pan Am 103, blown out of the sky allegedly by Libyan agents after Gaddafi almost died from Reagan's bombs...