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Still, the productions were mostly brief and small-scale, the livelihood far from lavish. "The least hint of the starving-artist routine," he recalls, "did not behoove my immigrant legacy of belief in education and upward mobility." In 1983, when he was 26, Hwang suffered the sort of crisis of conscience that comes to many people whose success was quick and easy. "I lost belief in my subject matter -- I dismissed it as 'Orientalia for the intelligentsia' -- and virtually stopped writing for two years. I thought seriously about going to law school." After the anxiety passed, Hwang tried to broaden...
...House slashed spending for four major strategic weapons while reinstating the F-14D and the V-22. The House decided to restrict production of the controversial B-2 bomber to just four planes during the next two years, and to authorize those only if the Bush Administration agrees to scale back its $70 billion program. The House also chopped $1.8 billion from the Administration's $4.9 billion request for the Strategic Defense Initiative, cut $502 million out of Bush's $1.9 billion plan for a rail- launched MX missile, and completely eliminated $100 million for the Midgetman missile. Griped Bush...
...Squibb and Bristol-Myers a consolidation seemed a natural. It would weld Squibb's skill at research and development with its partner's worldwide sales force. "There is pressure on health-care costs throughout the world. U.S. companies are merging to obtain efficiencies of scale," says David Lippman, who follows the industry for Drexel Burnham Lambert...
Whether it was just a minor rumble or a major tremor on the political Richter scale, last week's vote for the upper house of Japan's parliament was certainly a shock to the Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled the country for 34 years. In the most devastating setback in its history, the L.D.P. claimed only 36 of the 126 seats up for grabs, while the underdog Japan Socialist Party took 46. Declared exultant J.S.P. leader Takako Doi: "I truly felt the mountains moving...
Since the 1960s, there has been almost no measurable progress in housing integration. In 1980 housing in the 16 metropolitan areas with the largest black populations was rated 80 on a 0-to-100 scale on which 100 meant total segregation. These discriminatory patterns cannot be explained only by black- white economic differences. In New York, Chicago and Detroit, black college graduates are about as likely to live in segregated neighborhoods as black high school dropouts...