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...Administration ready to stabilize the value of the dollar? How can the West increase demand and output without setting off inflation again? The President may think it unfair to be faced with such an inquisition, but he will be assured that no one is trying merely to vex...
...controlled, society has an interest in discouraging it. In societies whose survival depended on the manufacture of sufficient warriors to go die in battle for the good of the tribe, this might be a reasonable argument. Religious attitudes and strictures deriving from this requirement in ancient Israel and elsewhere vex us even...
What do the militant Muslims really want? This question, which began to vex the West with special urgency as the Iranian revolution unfolded, piqued the curiosity of V.S. Naipaul. Instead of simply clucking in wonder, he decided to look for an answer at the source. He mapped out a six-month itinerary that only a journalist or a masochist could love. In August 1979, it was off to Iran, a nation still rejoicing in the fall of the Shah, still tumultuous under the evolving rule of Khomeini. Then to Pakistan, the troubled state founded in 1947 as a homeland...
...thoroughly as TIME'S Edwin Reingold. From 1969 to 1971, he was Tokyo bureau chief, chronicling the early days of Japan's economic boom. He was reassigned as chief of our Detroit bureau in 1971, just when fuel-efficient Japanese cars were beginning to vex U.S. automakers. Returning to head the Tokyo bureau in 1978, he found Japan's economy in full flower. Reingold's split-screen perspective on the U.S. and Japan proved to be invaluable in reporting this week's cover story. Says he: "Since auto imports are the major focus of contention...
...McHale.will return to the exuberant comedy and middle-class Catholic characters of his first two novels, Principato and Farragan's Retreat, will again be disappointed. McHale seems stubbornly determined not to repeat ear lier successes. In that respect, at least, The Lady from Boston succeeds. The novel will vex those who expect their reading matter to carry the freight of coherent meaning. Those who do not mind the voyeuristic experience of being interested but not concerned will find it a lot easier to take McHale...