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...Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism, Reich describes how America's new professional elite has grown ever more distant from the rest of society and disengaged itself from communal spaces, institutions and obligations. "The most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead will be to affirm that, even though America is no longer a separate and distinct economy...
...great Left Bank establishments, such as Les Deux Magots and Le Flore, thrive by serving up literary nostalgia to tourists; even off the beaten track, visitors still find the city bristling with humble neighborhood cafes and their newer manifestation, the wine bar. But among the natives, the statistics of decline have prompted a cry of alarm, with newspaper articles and even a television special deploring the slow extinction of le zinc. A government poll showed that 62% of the French feel cafes are an "indispensable" part of life. A festival at the Paris Videotheque inventoried 110 films centered on cafes...
...will probably still be able to give large sums to political parties, which have been brilliant at finding legal ways to support individual candidates. The bottom line is not hopeful: unless Clinton really pushes his cause, Washington will still be a town in which Eddie Murphy's character can thrive...
...move to embrace and implement new economic policies will allow the "warrior-archers, the god actors and their handlers" who inhabit Walcott's Trinidad to thrive...
...Gossips thrive on a kind of conspiracy theory that has Charles and Diana each surrounded by cadres of supporters who leak material damaging to the other. In the case of Charles, even palace professionals and police have been < rumored to be fueling the family feud. In Diana's, it is friends like Gilbey and her brother Charles, the new Earl Spencer. If true, she may not be getting very good advice. Last year Spencer decided to head off a rumor about an affair that continued after his marriage by announcing himself that it was true. Perhaps not the sagest fellow...