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New law will not restore the parks to the purity of Eden, nor halt the waves of people pressing in on them. "Preservation involves two paradoxes," writes Alston Chase, author of Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park. "We can restore and sustain the appearance...
Tolerance gradually developed for many things -- repression, arbitrary taxation, forced signatures, the Iron Curtain, the humiliation of scientists, composers, writers. The best people were pruned away. It was like a nightmare in which a gang determined to kill all the Thoroughbred horses wandered through the stables at night with axes...
For those with such an eye to history, the garden represents a chance to create something that lasts. In the late Middle Ages, when plague ran rampant through Europe, explains Historian Barbara Tuchman, survivors feared that the wilderness would return because there would not be enough people alive to hold...
Federal regulators said last week that liquidations will remain a last resort in resolving the industry's widespread insolvencies. Of 3,100 federally insured thrifts, some 200 are considered hopelessly insolvent. The FSLIC's liability for these S and Ls now significantly exceeds its assets on hand, so that the...
Unlike his predecessors, Roemer is using his new clout to dismantle the pattern of extravagant patronage and spending programs that made Louisiana seem as profligate as a Cajun on an old-time oil-patch payday. The Roemer Revolution is a drastic effort to restore solvency to a state that is...