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...grave economic predicament," brought about, he said, by an "inept and corrupt leadership." Oil normally accounts for 90% of Nigeria's export earnings, but the world petroleum glut sent those revenues falling from a peak of $26 billion a year to $10 billion. Corruption in Nigeria is rampant...
...words and even the occasional idea matter. For Gowan Evans McGland (Tom Conti), the English language is a weapon to be used against fools, an aphrodisiac with which to ply faculty wives, and a solace whenever thoughts of suicide dance in his head. Still, words give Gowan problems. His rampant eloquence can prove an embarrassment, as when one avid matron removes her brassiere and Gowan offers this verbal foreplay: "Released from their support, her breasts drooped like hanged men." And for ages now he has been unable to put words into an order that would constitute a publishable poem...
...people use credit cards, and utility bills and taxes cannot be paid by mail. Frustrated law-enforcement officials blame the courts for not keeping bank robbers behind bars. At the same time, however, many officials agree that the problem is rooted in Sāo Paulo's rampant unemployment and the low wages that are symptoms of Brazil's ailing economy. "We've had an awesome demographic explosion, with people flooding into the big cities looking for gold in the streets," said Jorge Miguel, a Sāo Paulo police official. "When they don't find...
...FIND A paradigm for the rampant misunderstandings between Blacks and whites in America, one need look no further than the Freshman Union. Freshman Black tables--organized or spontancous gatherings of Black students at the same few tables meal after meal--have long inspired debate on just how integrated Harvard students should be. Most Black students seem to view the fact that Blacks sit at the same takes together at meals and attend the same parties as a good thing, while many whites see the same situation as a symptom of racial polarization and terrorism. Black students, binding together...
Ehrenreich's central thesis is that it was not the feminism of the 1960s at all that provoked this counter-revolt. Instead, a male revolt, or "flight from commitment," had begun a decade before in the form of the Beat movement; which responded to the rampant conformity of the '50s. Everyone knows the Beats were rebellious: they drifted around the country in search of "kicks," abandoning all shreds of the traditional male role as husband, father and breadwinner. But how many people connect the Beat form of rebellion with the subsequent reclassification of "responsibility" as an unhealthy, even neurotic trait...