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WHILE East Asia was building its economic power, the superpower duo was building up their arms caches. Like bumbling giants, both have the strength of 10 nations but can't figure out how to use it. The U.S. may have figured this out in 1975 when Saigon fell; the Soviet Union is learning this critical lesson now as it tries to extricate itself from the disastrous campaign in Afghanistan...
...once was able to use its strength to set up an international arena for trade and investment, but now it is finding itself uncompetitive at the game it taught the world to play. And losing that game has spurred the United States to search for an alternative definition for our national purpose. This is difficult because our way of life has always been tied to our dominance as a superpower. It's like the line in Platoon when one U.S. soldier in the middle of a Vietnamese jungle says of his nation--we've been kicking ass for so long...
...spouse of a Soviet leader to weigh less than he does, acid tongues have it in Moscow, and the first "Czarina," as some of her fellow citizens mock her, to appear in the Kremlin since the fall of the Romanovs. She is also the first Soviet First Lady to use an American Express card and, as a member of the board of the Culture Fund, the first since Lenin's wife to hold a prominent public position. Her frosty intellect, sharp tongue and relatively lavish habits are the talk of Moscow. Almost from the day in 1985 when her husband...
...remember my father giving me was when he overheard me calling a little black boy with whom I was playing a 'nigger.' He told me, 'It wasn't anything you did that made you white, wasn't anything he did that made him black,' and I was never to use that word again." It was no defense, said Helms, that the boy had called him a "white cracker...
Photographers used to fall into two clearly focused categories: professionals who lugged around bags overstuffed with expensive lenses, meters and flash attachments and amateurs who made do with Instamatics and flashcubes. That distinction gradually blurred as advanced features drifted down to the low- priced cameras and automatic functions moved up to make the high-priced models increasingly easy to use. But in recent years the pace of change in camera technology has accelerated to the point where the old categories no longer apply. Today even the most casual shutterbugs can have at their fingertips all the photographic tools the pros...