On the Record

Who's Smiling? The Economist April 18-24, 1992 Huh?!? [During an early morning visit to the Jefferson Memorial, President Bush comments about an inscription that it is an "eloquent plea for...

...Argentine President Menem November 7, 1991 cited in Nueva Sociedad January-February 1992 Dirty Thoughts Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [less developed countries...
...REPORTER: You're misinterpreting Jefferson...
...The New York Times April 7, 1992 Nuptial Harmony President Fujimori said his wife, Susana Higuchi, fully supported his decision to dissolve Congress and reorganize the judiciary...
...BUSH: Perot...
...BUSH: No I'm not...
...BUSH: No, I think he's on yours...
...World Bank Internal Memo by Chief Economist Lawrence Summers December 1991 Fashion Tips Santo Domingo is the only Caribbean city where I know I'll need at least three party dresses and my lizard spike heels...
...XXV, No...
...I heard you...
...I can think of three reasons: 1...
...4) was misidentified...
...Resumen Semanal (Lima) April 15-23, 1992 War of the Beachballs Now, ironically, Jamaica sees a new threat from Communist Cuba...
...REPORTER: Perot, right...
...BUSH: Oh, sorry...
...REPORTER: You ought to send this statement to Peru...
...3) The concern over an agent that causes a one-per-million change in the odds of prostate cancer is obviously going to be higher in a country where people [live long enough to] get prostate cancer than in a country where mortality is 200 per 1,000 under age five...
...2) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted compared with Los Angeles or Mexico City...
...REPORTER: Peru...
...I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that...
...Vogue Magazine January 1992 After a Few Tequilas "With the notable exception of Mexico," Richard Feinberg, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a forum for hemispheric leaders, said in an interview, "parliamentary institutions and political parties are lacking in legitimacy in Latin America...
...I would rather be totalitarian with 80% popular support than democratic with 20...
...We have talked about it in the living room, in my office and in the bedroom, and in all three places, she has shown herself to be in agreement," he said...
...The New York Times April 9, 1992 Was Fujimori Eavesdropping...
...During an early morning visit to the Jefferson Memorial, President Bush comments about an inscription that it is an "eloquent plea for term limits...
...Is he on your mind...
...The Wall Street Journal May 14, 1992 CORRECTION The Afro-Brazilian deity depicted on the cover of our last issue (Vol...
...I'd really be concerned if Cuba were to become democratic and really open up its economy tomorrow," muses Morin Seymour, a Jamaican entrepreneur who is restoring Kingston's harbor area...
...They have better beaches than we do...
...BUSH: This is a lovely memorial...
...It was Shango, not Ogun...

Vol. 25 • May 1992 • No. 5


 
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