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...commotions and our causes have grown so small. We all know about corporate downsizing, but who would have thought that in the '90s, everything else would get downsized too? The country is so short on big things--heroes, villains, conflicts--that we've had to inflate little things and pretend they're big. Our statesmen used to revile Hitler, Mussolini, the godless Reds--large and sinister enemies who wanted to take over the world. Now the the focus of evil in American life is...the tobacco industry. The fellows who make cigarettes may be--indeed are--mendacious, but they...
What does it mean this time? Could it be the end of the bull market? Nobody knows. But herky-jerky trading patterns alone are no reason to run. Sit back and pretend that you're on that island blissfully out of touch with your broker...
...Their eight-week stay was funded by Soros, whom I'd never heard of. We ought to clone him. Imagine, a business tycoon who spends a third of his day "thinking... about... where the world is going"! This is behavior we normally attribute to poets and philosophers, people we pretend to take seriously but prefer to confine to the ivory towers of a university, where their radical social ideas will pose no threat to our selfish individualism. JENNIFER FISHER BRYANT Glenmoore...
...public is after. "People have clearly not lost interest in the monarchy," says Ben Pimlott, a professor of government at the University of London and the author of a new biography of Queen Elizabeth. "People who think that we can just skip out of this royal relationship and pretend that it does not exist need to look at all the flowers outside Buckingham Palace...
...daunted her." "The press were dreadful," says KAY KING, headmistress of the Young England kindergarten. "From the moment the first picture of her appeared at Balmoral until the time of her engagement, it was nonstop. She had no guidance from the palace, because they were trying to pretend it didn't exist...