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...THIS writing, the downward spiral of the Aquino administration is continuing. Military commanders, unimpressed with Aquino's brand of leadership, are increasingly drawn to Honasan; the people, seeing the administration threatened, are beginning to lose faith in Aquino as a capable president...
...there is Kyoto, the perfect religious city. On street corners and in train stations are impeccably printed surreal posters that seem only incidentally to be advertising, but in the pages of magazines there is artsy typographical chaos. There are delightfully showboating aluminum office towers (such as Fumihiko Maki's Spiral building in Tokyo) as well as brand-new buildings made entirely of secondhand wood (Atsuo Hoshino's House of Used Lumber, on the outskirts of Tokyo). The familiar and the provocative, the traditional and the radical, the ascetic and the deluxe, the indigenous and the foreign -- all coexist in contemporary...
...downward spiral of the Wolf family is linked to the disintegration of Newark's most impoverished neighborhoods. Twenty years ago the city had 9,000 businesses and more than 200,000 jobs; today it has less than half that many businesses and 120,000 jobs. The population, which was more than 80% white and totaled 430,000 in 1950, has shrunk to 330,000, 65% black. Although thousands of hardworking black families remain, nearly a third of the residents depend on public assistance. In some neighborhoods more than three-quarters of the families are on the dole, many...
...embassy war between Paris and Tehran threatens to spiral out of control. -- After 38 years, Taiwan lifts martial...
Some of North's deceptions were neither humorous nor motivated by lofty concerns about saving anything but his own skin. He admitted taking "hundreds of pages" of papers and many of his spiral-bound notebooks out of secure NSC offices to his home in suburban Great Falls, Va. Noting that North had complained about the lack of security at his house, Liman asked why he would do this. Back came the up-front answer: "To protect myself...