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...Since Black Monday, the total value of shares on the exchange has plunged by more than 70%, from $38 billion to $11 billion. Says Salvador Kalifa, an economic consultant from the northern city of Monterrey: "Gossip and rumors take precedence over all else. All people want is to get rid of their portfolios." The market collapse made Mexicans nervous about the peso...
While James Baker was a better White House chief of staff than he is a Treasury Secretary, removing him would create a furor that neither the White House nor the financial markets need. "It's not people they have to get rid of," says former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, "but phobias and attitudes." Says Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist of the National Association of Manufacturers: "It would be a serious error to undermine Baker and Alan Greenspan...
...Philippines. Aquino's once unassailable hold on popular support is slowly slipping, and the country is on the brink of chaos. Though she has painstakingly restored democracy, she has not been able to usher in paradise. Instead, the threat of apocalypse hangs over the Philippines. As Aquino tries to rid the country of the corrupt legacy of Ferdinand Marcos, an increasing number of Filipinos fear that her government is running out of steam. "We expected decency in government. We expected efficiency," says Antonio Oposa, a lawyer in the central Philippine city of Cebu. "Maybe that's too much to expect...
Humility may be a virtue, and Expos is right in trying to rid students of their bad habits. But all too often, the whole writer is shattered instead...
...flat plane, the "dictatorship of the medium," had killed off the project of making abstract forms that, by moving in deep pictorial space, reawakened one's sense of the body. His way of doing this, in paintings from the Indian Birds series like Ram gangra, 1978, was to get rid of the solid back plane and replace it with a mesh support, so that the shapes seemed to hang in the air. The relatively sedate movement of form in Stella's earlier work became an agitated, dense array, and the vividness of color seemed to have gone over the edge...