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China's pragmatic leaders are taking steps to eliminate such surprises. The government announced last month that a welter of previously restricted "internal" regulations issued by the State Council, China's highest executive body, will henceforth be circulated publicly. "The publication of regulations signed by China's Premier will help people learn exactly what they are being asked to adjust to, follow or enforce," said Huang Shuhai, a deputy director of legislative affairs for the State Council. "Their legal rights and interests will also be made clearer...
...source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity...
...coming to an end for Ronald Reagan as it must for all Presidents, and, as is so often the case, the last act is a welter of charges and countercharges, scandal and disillusion. Still, Reagan is fighting, smiling. His standing with his people is edging up a bit. There will be dining and toasting and travel, a just rite of exit. But the power is palpably fading. It is being gathered up in strange little places like Greenfield, Iowa, where the latter-day populist Jesse Jackson tramps through the cornfields, and Campton, N.H., where Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis sounds native...
...most frustrated leader of all may be Ronald Reagan, who is hobbled by the Iranscam tangle and the increasing welter of problems arising from the U.S.'s foreign and domestic indebtedness. Not only the President but also the U.S. itself are widely seen as weaker abroad, a perception that is reflected in a declining American ability to lead the way on international economic issues. That fact may reflect one of the major challenges of the summit: How can allies long accustomed to U.S. leadership find solutions to their economic problems at a time when the U.S. is becoming, at best...
...line with tax reform, the new 1040s will include five income brackets, instead of 15. Many of the intricate old deductions, including the write-off for state sales tax, are gone. But supplemental income schedules contain a welter of new instructions. What does the IRS, fresh from the humiliating recall of its W-4 withholding forms, have to say? The changes, pleads Arthur Altman, head of the IRS group that redesigned the forms, are a "reflection of what Congress has given...