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Tokyo that spring was a city mired in its ninth consecutive year of economic stagnation. Even Lucie had heard tales of Japan's fiscal woes - the depressed real estate market, the companies slashing expense accounts - but the city she saw was an entirely different spectacle. As she settled down in...
At 11:00 on a recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands...
In Coyah, a town in Guinea blessed with springs of the purest water, Ibrahim and Marie ignored the tradition. Not defiantly but without thought, because Aisha was their first child and they were distracted by worries. No one was buying the beds Ibrahim built, and refugees from Liberia and Sierra...
What they don't worry much about anymore is Washington. In the old days, millions were spent lobbying against environmental and safety regulations. These days Ford Motor no longer feels pinched by those regs. On a recent visit with Dick Cheney, Ford as much as told the Vice President (between...
To the rest of the world, of course, the fire (which resulted in four deaths, and lawsuits) was just more fodder for the irresistible tabloid spectacle of a former child star's long spiral downward. There were, first of all, those chilling tales of his domineering father and manager, Kit...