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...philosophy is being tested by reality and challenged by Congress. But the President remains an irrepressible optimist. As he grappled with his economic predicament and the recalcitrance on Capitol Hill last week, he told an old joke about the ever-hopeful little boy who finds himself standing amid a pile of horse manure on Christmas morning. The punch line: "There must be a pony in here someplace." -By Walter Isaacson...
...ticket out. The era of "grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile of ash a new self will arise. In the democracy of neurosis, everyone is entitled to his own apocalypse. Burnout becomes the mechanism by which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like...
...views on segregation." Tom Ellis, 61, a Raleigh lawyer and Helms' most powerful political sponsor, defends his man. "He hates the K.K.K. and those people. Is that what racism is all about?" Asked why none of the 112-person Helms staff is black, Ellis answers: "Not a whole pile have applied...
Rumors that the Rolling Stones might hang up their mikes hit the rock pile last week when Mick Jagger, 37, announced that the group's upcoming U.S. tour will not, as had been speculated, be their last. During a press conference at Philadelphia's J.F.K. Stadium, where the 38-city tour will begin Sept. 25, Jagger made it clear that the Stones-still the best-known rock band in the world-would continue to roll and that Tattoo You, their just-released album, would not be a finale. "Performing is what we do as a living...
...lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along the road somewhere and empty a pile of grain on the ground. Then they come back to collect it to feed their own livestock or to sell privately." So pervasive is the practice in major grain-growing areas of the Ukraine that police regularly patrol the roads looking for I tell tale mounds of grain...