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...designed to rebuild a smashed infrastructure, provide jobs and spur internal demand. For the domestic industries, Japan pursued consistently protectionist, anti-competitive policies, with the intention of keeping as many companies afloat as possible. "Ten percent of the country was allowed to be capitalist, and the other 90% was socialist," says Eisuke Sakakibara, director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University and a former vice minister of finance. He's not really joking. Antitrust laws were virtually nonexistent, cartels flourished and high tariffs pushed away foreign entrants...
...requirements. You don't do what you are supposed to." These tough words - from NATO Secretary-General George Robertson, no less - greeted Hungarian Defense Minister Ferenc Juhász during his second week in the job. On a visit to the alliance's Brussels headquarters fresh from his Hungarian Socialist Party's general election victory last April, Juhász was shocked: "I was expecting more cooperative language. All the other countries were unfriendly. They questioned our seriousness in the fight against terrorism. They questioned our trustworthiness as an ally." What went wrong? When Hungary was admitted to NATO...
Offering copies of the Socialist paper Workers’ Vanguard to passersby, the pair disparages the candidates on the ballot...
...changing notions of liberty and nature; the Victorian era, about emerging concepts of gender and family life; colonialism, about the hubris of liberal humanism. The last hour neatly encapsulates the entire 20th century by comparing Winston Churchill and George Orwell and the very different ways the aristocrat and the socialist championed freedom...
...drove to Washington with me: another Harvard undergraduate, a Harvard Medical School doctor and two other Bostonians. It was already mid-morning, and few “ordinary” people were in sight. Political radicals lined the Constitution Gardens walkways, hawking at least three different Communist and Socialist papers. About 10,000 kids with dreadlocks in frayed black sweatshirts roamed the lawns. I feared that these radicals would do more to undermine the anti-war cause with their outrageous claims than to promote it. I was worried that the presence of so many extremists would repulse those who might...