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...Harvard Square. 876-6837. Boston area Premier of Herzog's Echoes from a Somber Empire at 3:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5. Boston area premier of the European cut of Brazil at 9:30 on Thursday, Nov. 5 Boston area premier of Swoon at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. from Friday, Nov. 6 until Thursday...
BASEBALL STORIES IN SEPTEMBER should be about matters that matter. Pennant races! Like, is this the year Montreal and Toronto finally subject us to an all-Canadian World Series? And, will the Cincinnati Reds snap out of their current swoon in time to give the Atlanta Braves a run for Ted Turner's money? Oh, and how come the Oakland A's, riven with disabled players, traded stud slugger Jose Canseco to the Texas Rangers for a guy with chicken...
...inflated bubble was in danger of bursting. A consensus emerged that it had to be deflated. The Bank of Japan began pushing up interest rates. The Ministry of Finance published regulations to discourage real estate speculation. The bubble began to deflate. And the Tokyo Stock Exchange went into a swoon which is yet to end. Currently flirting with the 20,000 level, the Nikkei average is down 47% from its peak. Real estates prices fell as much as 30% in Tokyo and 40% in Osaka...
...most voters -- recognize that the roots of the nation's problems lie within the 50 states. Still, in the sound-bite derby for the White House, Japan's affluence and economic nationalism make tempting targets. Japan owes its current prominence to, along with the recession, the President's sorrowful swoon at the Sparkplug Summit in Tokyo. Never before has the nation's Globe-Trotter in Chief seemed so woefully ill prepared on foreign soil. Bush was unable to articulate a coherent rationale, other than pity, for why Japan should liberalize its economic system to reduce its trade surplus with...
...soon discover that the worst thing that can happen to a candidate is to be too far ahead too soon. The political press corps, which prides itself on how quickly it can knock the stuffing out of those who would run for President, has gone into a deep swoon over his candidacy, from which it will sooner or later recover. For the moment, reporters seem entranced by Clinton's persona: a good-government geek saved by a self-deprecating sense of humor. As chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, a group that wants to yank the party back...