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Washington optimists--and there still are a few--like to view Gramm-Rudman as nothing more than a device for applying pressure. As they see it, when the pressure gets high enough a few months from now--meaning when enough special- interest groups rise in rebellion against the threatened cuts--there will occur, as if by magic, what former Budget Director David Stockman used to call "the big fix." This comes when everybody reluctantly agrees to both some budget cuts and some tax increases. One formula being mentioned is known as 20-20-20, meaning $20 billion in new taxes...
...South Yemen, where he was reported to be assembling a force of 40,000 soldiers and volunteers in the Abyan region, his stronghold to the east of the capital. Rebel radio broadcasts rarely referred to Abdul Fattah Ismail, the former President who was thought to be leading the rebellion, thereby fueling speculation that he had been killed when fighting began two weeks ago. Late in the week, the radio reported that the insurgents had chosen Prime Minister Haidar Abu Bakr al Attas, who had been in Moscow since the conflict started, as acting leader...
...usual view of German modernism, which prevailed until quite recently, tells a very different story. It depicts young outsiders who are rapturously expressive in their rebellion against painterly norms before World War I and bitterly sardonic in their attacks on society after it. These artists rehearse the last phase of the exaltations and terrors of German romanticism. They are seen, by all but a tiny minority of Germans, as mad, bad and dangerous to know: frantic orphans of the fatherland, nut eaters, Nietzscheans, stargazers, communards, Spartacists, reciting overloud yeas to nature and nays to society. Among them are Ernst Ludwig...
Side two is as banal, both lyrically and musically, as side one. More grating guitars, more monotonous synth-pop, and more droning dub. "This is England" tries to incite some national spirit; "Three Card Trick" advocates teen rebellion: "You won't fall for that just like your mummy and your daddy did." "Play to Win," "Fingerpoppin," "North and South," and "Life is Wild" offer more of the same pathetic drivel that permeates the entire disk...
...evacuations to Treblinka. The ghetto could have been wiped out with weapons, as was finally done after the rebellion. After I'd left. But at the start... Mr. Lanzmann, this is getting us nowhere. We're reaching no new conclusions...