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...baldly flouts all the IMF's ?- and nearly everyone else?s -- current wisdom on saving Asia. According to their formula, a package of stopgap loans and high internal interest rates can protect the currency and attract foreign capital in the short term by restoring investor confidence. Follow that with swift and painful economic reforms, and recovery should be imminent. But for Mahathir, flipping the Western economic establishment the bird is part of his plan?s allure. The West, Mahathir insists, fears a ascendant Asia, with its large Muslim populations and strong governments, and is gleefully exploiting the Asian crisis...
DIED. DOROTHY WEST, 91, sole surviving voice of the Harlem Renaissance; in Boston. West was just a teen when she tied with Zora Neale Hurston for second place in a short-story contest, winning swift admission into the gifted clique of black intellectuals. The daughter of an ex-slave, West settled in tony Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and in 1995, after years of literary silence, published The Wedding, a novel about the black bourgeoisie that she dedicated to her editor, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...swift end, however, may not come. Ken Starr's office is still weighing whether today's testimony was too vague. The long national nightmare may have a few reels left...
...reported that the co-founders of the Yahoo! search engine picked the name out of the dictionary [THE INTERNET ECONOMY, July 20]. My dictionary defines yahoo as a race of brutes in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have all the vices of men. A secondary meaning: an uncouth or rowdy person. Are the company's founders proud of that appellation? ROBERT J. BYRNE St. Louis...
...shore is sucked away; fish flop gasping in unexpected air; harbor boats are dashed to splinters on the sudden sand. For five minutes or perhaps 30, the sea is empty as the great wave rolls in. Out in the deep it was no more than a foot high, swift and imperceptible; now, forced into standing straight by the ascending slope of the ocean floor, it is 20 feet. Or a hundred. And it will pound down on places the gentle tides have never touched...