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Forgetfulness for whatever reason is an unforgivable sin for the American left, for it mirrors too closely the greed-induced myopia of our country's post-World War II foreign policy. El Salvador--indeed all of Latin America--provides a textbook case of this phenomenon, a classic example of the wrongheaded shortsightedness that loses us almost every Third World friend we have...
...Novak are exposed in ways now unthinkable. A blurred, scarlet-toned Liz Taylor sports thick arm hair; a 5 o'clock shadow darkens Cary Grant's cleft chin; Lana Turner's forehead is marred by blemishes; and the Frank Sinatra of 1945 resembles a textbook definition of adenoidal irregularity. Kobal wisely concludes his collection at 1960. These days, color photographers flatter, airbrush and highlight cinema stars to idolized images. Lost is that earlier fragile humanity, peeking through the pancake makeup...
...most primitive cultures, I people do not directly exchange one good for another," writes Nobel Laureate Paul A. Samuelson in the eleventh edition of his widely used economics textbook. "Instead, they sell one good for money, and then use money to buy the goods they wish." But in the U.S. today, thousands of people are returning to primitive habits of exchange...
...populations to the New World and their adaptation to its opportunities and frustrations objectively. To a large extent, he succeeds, for what he sacrifices in passion and fury, he compensates with the conviction of his honesty. What his narrative loses in style and wit--Sowell's is a turgid, textbook monotone--he gains in clarity and precision. "The history of American ethnic groups," says Sowell, "is the history of a complex aggregate of complex groups and individuals. It cannot be a simple morality play." He seeks to explain events from their causes, not to fit them into an ideological pattern...
...future, more publishers may begin leaving suggested retail prices off textbook, allowing retailers to hike prices even more, deLellis said. (The Coop currently sells its texts at publisher's suggested prices, Argeros said...