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Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger, a Brazilian by birth, left Cambridge for Brasilia last week to enter the famously rough-and-tumble world of Brazilian politics. Unger officially assumed the title of Secretary of Long Term Planning last Tuesday...
...That would be dangerous. While China's growth over the past 20 years has been impressive, the country has not escaped the laws of economics. There is no such thing as a perpetual-motion machine. Eventually China, like every other country in the world, will hit an economic rough patch-and for China it will be exceptionally rough. Chinese society today is a moral and spiritual vacuum. People care only about making money, not for one another. If the economic pie grows smaller, people will fight one another ferociously for a piece of it. Things could get brutal...
...what the government does. What Cheney and others refuse to reveal is who green-lighted these activities and whether anyone cared if they were constitutional. On June 27 the Senate subpoenaed Cheney and the White House for information about domestic spying without warrants, a program that, at least in rough outline, is already widely known...
FANS ARGUED ABOUT IT: WAS he better at bull riding or bareback riding--or just the greatest rough-stock rider ever? One thing was not in dispute: Hall of Famer Jim Shoulders, the "Babe Ruth of rodeo cowboys," had an unusual tolerance for pain. Among the bones he broke while riding to a record 16 world championships in the 1940s and '50s: both arms (twice), his collarbone (three times) and 27 bones in his face. After breaking a hand during a ride, he switched to the other one and won. His celebrity expanded in the early '80s when he sparred...
...have never been beloved figures. In crafting a performer's image, producing or writing their records, or all of the above, they're part bully, part stage mother, and part egomaniac, and inevitably, the singers under their strict control rebel against them. But Svengalis are going through a particularly rough patch these days. Phil Spector, one of the most renowned and controlling, is on trial for murder. Lou Pearlman, who helped concoct the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync by way of his boy-band factory in Florida, has been unceremoniously dragged back to the U.S. from Guam to face bank...