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...many of those lost jobs would probably vanish anyway, either going under to foreign competition or moving to Asia. And there is an advantage to keeping even lost employment closer to home: manufacturers who move to Mexico are more likely to retain their proximate U.S. suppliers than are those who move to Asia. In fact, the trade pact may persuade many U.S. and other companies to shift production from low-cost Asian plants to low-cost Mexican plants, which could generate additional business for U.S. suppliers...
...recurrent fantasy among gays has been that one day, unexpectedly, every homosexual and bisexual in America will wake up purple, and when friends, relatives, neighbors, co-workers and other acquaintances see how many gays there are, and how many of these people already hold their trust, bigotry will vanish. In a sense, AIDS has done this. Fatal illness has forced some celebrities out of the closet and prompted others to assert their sexuality as an act of conscience. The sheer volume of suffering has made homosexuals less exotic and more sympathetic. Slowly the message is getting across that gays neither...
...enduring strength of the Olympic ideal. The fact that one non-N.B.A. basketball player, Christian Laettner, has been included on the American squad seems to be yet another bow to the notion of sport for its own sake. The gesture bespeaks an ambivalence -- one that will not soon vanish from the Games...
...enough in suppressing the communist past and hope that the court will close out the chapter. In fact, what happened to the party remains something of a mystery. It controlled almost every aspect of life and counted more than 20 million members in its prime, yet seemed to vanish overnight after the failed coup. A year later, the legacy of communist rule has proved difficult to erase. Democrats may be in control of the tip of the pyramid of power, but the middle levels are still dominated by bureaucrats from the old nomenklatura, who may have taken down their portraits...
...near midnight, and Richard Price was stranded, notebook in hand, in the lobby of a bleak housing project with a surly crowd massing outside. Price had followed a cop who was chasing a drug dealer into the building, only to have them vanish up one of three stairways before he could see where they went. When an elderly woman appeared, Price desperately bluffed being a cop and demanded, "Where'd my partner go?" She could only stammer and stare. Finally the real officer returned, winded and empty-handed, and escorted the shaken writer safely through the crowd...