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Everyone in Japan talks about the violence in the junior high schools. Students threaten their teachers, even pull knives on them. The Japanese discuss such incidents, curiously enough, without much anger, without the punitive tone one might expect. But they worry. Of course, the violence done in all the schools in Japan in a year probably cannot match what the students in New York City schools commit in a month. Still, the Japanese seem to sense in the rebelliousness of the junior high school students a glimpse of the future, and it frightens them. A country that has lived...
...Madrid seemed to hold out the possibility of further opening up the political system, allowing other minority parties greater power. Welcome as that reform would be, it seemed unlikely to threaten the PRI's dominance of Mexican politics. Of the country's 23.6 million voters, approximately 74% supported the PRI in the last national election. Emboldened by their victories, PAN supporters have already set their sights on another state contest: the Sept. 4 elections for the governorship of Baja California Norte...
...never spills over into arrogance, and Eddie Murphy has it all. But for people to like you is something else, something more difficult to define: a gift, a charm, a comedic sex appeal. Murphy's bad-boy street patter, with four-letter words used less to shock or threaten than to salt his jokes with the rhythm of machismo, carries with it an inner-city demand for respect. Then suddenly his handsome face flashes a good-boy dimple, and out of his mouth comes the laugh that sounds like a happy goose crossed with a stopped-up vacuum cleaner...
...measures would be studied to stabilize currency markets. The Japanese escaped direct criticism of their own trade policies while joining in a general condemnation of protectionism. And all of America's trading partners extracted an admission from Washington that uncontrolled budget deficits contribute to rising interest rates and threaten to sap the strength of the budding global recovery. The conferees made no concrete pledges about how these problems would be specifically solved, but they at least came away with a greater sensitivity to one another's concerns...
...Bulwer-Lytton was the author of The Last Days of Pompeii may have more luck with the gummy red spaceship that moves around the outskirts of Duluth. It contains a race of highly competent centipedes who can change themselves into beautiful women or Hubert Humphrey. The aliens do not threaten the commonweal nearly as much as do the Aztec Terrorists Society, a black drug dealer named Big John and Police Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, who enjoys strip-searching suspects...