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...such apocalyptic visions justified? Not at all, argues conservative pundit George Gilder in his new book, Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (Simon & Schuster; $19.95), a lively look at the history and prospects of the U.S. microelectronics industry. Gilder, author of the best-selling Wealth and Poverty, thinks that as computer-chip technology advances, America will widen its lead...
...time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad. It is a difficult yoga bend that leaves the writer arched backward with his head on the floor...
THERE are a number of reasons why Alderman Tim Evans didn't win last week's mayoral election in Chicago. The biggest problem was pointed out by Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko, the consummate Chicago political pundit. "It boils down to what the late Mayor Richard J. Daley"--father of the new mayor, Richard M. Daley--"used to say when one of his candidates lost. The reporters would ask: 'Why did he lose?' With a straight face, Daley would always say: 'He lost 'cuz he didn't get enough votes...
...Recruit affair has put intense pressure on the Takeshita government, whose popularity is at a record low of 21% in the polls. Opposition parties have called for the Prime Minister to resign unless he acts soon to clear up the scandal. Says one pundit: "Takeshita is in a real...
...which means that George Washington, ourFounding Father, was perhaps the greatestpolitical pundit of them...