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...hike out of the Ndoki in two days, covering more than 30 km in the last 24 hours. It would be rough going for a distance runner, but I am in no shape for the trip at all. An insect has apparently injected me with one of the countless toxins found in the jungle, and I come down with pleurisy-like symptoms that make every breath painful. It is probably dengue fever, also called breakbone fever. Whatever it is, the final day's march is sheer hell. As at the beginning of the trip, darkness falls when we are still...
Among the best-known Harvard names is Baker Professor of Economic Martin S. Feldstein '61, who was a close runner-up in the search for a Harvard president. During Ronald Reagan's first term. Feldstein chaired the Council of Economic Advisers. Now, he indoctrinates undergraduates with his conservative spin on the dismal science in "Ec 10," the introductory economics class that is usually the largest course at Harvard...
...Bush, there was one other hopeful sign last week. Four years ago, on June 16, 1988, Bush was reported to be 15 points behind the Democratic front runner, Michael Dukakis, in a national poll and was widely believed to have all but lost it. Later he slipped even further behind before finally pulling ahead. Bush has almost five months left in the 1992 contest, and as Bill Clinton said recently, five months is an eternity in a presidential campaign...
Meanwhile a natural law of American politics is beginning to take effect: once a candidate is anointed as front runner, he inevitably triggers enough intense scrutiny from the press, opponents and voters to slow down his surge, at least for a bit. The impeding effect is greatest on candidates about whom the public and press know little, since negative revelations can easily shatter their tenuous popularity. The latest example: Clinton, who was declared a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination before the New Hampshire primary but then was staggered by bombshells about his alleged extramarital affairs, draft status and experiment...
Like The Nasty Girl from Germany, Toto le Heros from Belgium and Delicatessen from France, Zentropa finds movie energy in spiritual malaise. These films take their cue from the dystopic visions of Blade Runner and Brazil -- pictures set in the future but cluttered with decor from the film noir past. The imagery possesses a kind of dour voluptuousness: bleak and busy. Their crammed, skewed compositions excite the eye. These movies won't push Lethal 3 off the multiplex screen; they can't compete with Hollywood product. And that is the happy point. They are appealingly strange -- different from the American...