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...Cutting Fujimori loose would be a tough decision for the U.S. in light of the high praise he earned during his first two terms for eliminating much of his country's cocaine production, smashing the leftist guerrilla insurgencies of the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru movements, and reining in hyperinflation. "Despite its previous support of Fujimori, the U.S. has become concerned that he has, over the past year, resorted to increasingly populist and authoritarian measures to ensure that he stays in power, including rewriting the constitution to allow himself a third term in office," says McGirk...
...could well be short-term shortages to deal with, but the market will adjust; it always has before. The EPA is taking the long view on pollution, which is exactly what they should be doing." Unfortunately for its opponents, the EPA proposal may not encounter much resistance on its path to becoming law; the Clean Air Act permits President Clinton to sign environmental measures without congressional approval, as long as the public has been given adequate warning and a chance to speak out on the issue. Members of the oil industry know they face an uphill battle against...
...where Fay Jones, the 17-year-old main character of his haunting fourth novel, Fay (Algonquin; 484 pages; $24.95), first appears, fleeing her abusive father. She is penniless, poorly educated and the bearer of an ill fate that brings tragedy into the life of every man who crosses her path. Among those who meet their doom after meeting Fay are Sam, a state trooper who brings her into his home after picking her up on the highway, and Aaron, a violent bouncer at a strip club in Biloxi...
...courageous or foolhardy, Bush is bucking a trend. Ever since Bill and Hillary Clinton served up more than 1,000 pages of health-care-reform proposals for their opponents to pick apart in 1993, pols have erred on the side of vagueness (not that this was an entirely undiscovered path to political success). In 1994 Newt Gingrich used poll-tested platitudes to sweep Republicans into power. A year later, when Gingrich got down to the prosaic details of governing, like offering specific Medicare-spending controls, the public--egged on by Clinton--rebelled. The lesson: be vague. There's a corollary...
...independent, we've grown more separate over the years; who knows why those things happen?"), and the other of his now estranged wife Donna Hanover, all poignancy and anguish about the eyes, with the pullquote caption: "I made a major effort to bring us back together.... he chose another path...