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The relentless pace of blockbuster deals is raising profound and disturbing questions. While economists generally praise mergers as good for the economy, many critics voice strong doubts. They charge that even the friendliest consolidations can derail careers, disrupt communities and create unmanageable mountains of debt. Perhaps worst of all, evidence...
At the moment [the country is] floundering around. You get a little piecemeal reform: the sex laws are repealed. It's like someone wanting to be praised because he's stopped beating his wife. It's crazy. It is not the height of my ambition in South Africa to cohabit...
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy did lavish effusive praise on Reagan's speech in a bilateral meeting on Thursday. But then Craxi and Reagan were both eager to demonstrate renewed friendship after the angry exchanges over the Achille Lauro hijacking and the Italian release of Suspected Plotter Abul Abbas...
There is a bitter quality to some of his recollections of Lake Wobegon, only partly softened by humor. In his book he claims that an angry son returned to the town intending to nail 95 complaints about his repressive parents to the door of the Lutheran church. The 34th of...
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David (Viking; $18.95) is a collection of essays with some recipes. The London-based food writer has gathered 35 years of provocative thoughts about French, Italian and other Mediterranean cooking, along with perceptive, literate pieces on English cuisine, all of which...