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...Dying Young makes its way into bookstores, all that money begins to look like a canny investment. There has always been a healthy market for doomed romance. Furthermore, this novel plays upon a current preoccupation -- explicitly stated in its title -- without raising the troubling specter of AIDS. Finally, Leimbach, 26, proves herself to be both a deft writer and a shrewd judge of just how much sentimentality her traffic will bear...
...Pacific Rim want a permanent, visible American military presence in that region as a counterbalance to China and Japan. That is a bit like suggesting, as many are suddenly doing, that now more than ever the world needs NATO -- and the Warsaw Pact -- to fend off the specter of German reunification and remilitarization. New rationales are being concocted for old arrangements...
...mind," says a U.S. official. "But now that he's taken a decision to fight these guys, he's unshakable." But if Barco's campaign is lauded by the politicians in Washington, it has more than its share of deserters among the politicians in Colombia. Aware that the specter of an American jail cell remains the drug bosses' darkest nightmare, the Colombian Supreme Court last October upheld Barco's use of executive powers to extradite suspects wanted in the U.S. But last week the Colombian House of Representatives voted to put the question of extradition on a nationwide referendum early...
...specter is haunting conservatives -- the specter of the end of Communism. Our nightmare, our adversary, our dark doppelganger for the past 40 years seems to be fading away. From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain is buckling. Will conservatism buckle with...
...supply of rent-controlled apartments in Cambridge has remained relatively stable since then. Rent control has protected an economically diverse community from the ominous specter of gentrification. Without rent control, apartments would be rented and sold to the highest bidder, and poorer city residents would be forced to leave...