POLITICAL BOOKNOTES
POLITICAL BOOKNOTES Inside Out: An Insider’s Account of Wall Street. Dennis B. Levine with William Hoffer. Putnarn, $22.95. Reading Dennis Levine’s book about his life and crimes on Wall...
...where people sell, not their but their labor for food, shelter, and clothing...
...Even the prima donnas of journalism do not escape her lethal scrutiny...
...Economics can be run according to Zen, but one doubts it can be run well...
...But A People’s Charter is not banal...
...Instead, the book focuses on “historic rights movements in which all participants are engaged in forging a dynamic, evolving people’s charter of rights...
...Reading Dennis Levine’s book about his life and crimes on Wall Street, it was hard not to think of that old phrase that accompanied the publication of memoirs by Watergate conspirators: Don’t buy books from crooks...
...The embassies were essentially dead...
...Power is everything,” she rightly observes...
...The same could be said of the lives today's inner-city African-American youths...
...In the fifties and sixties, some wondered what Americans would do with their time in the decades to come...
...At the White House, the axiom “perception is reality” dominated...
...It is a perspective that regards the right to happiness mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as more important than any right to unbounded private property...
...To listen to the caged experts the television networks keep in inventory to explicate the truth, the only butt-hustling hardchargers on the face of the planet are the Japanese...
...But instead of pursuing the rampant rumors about contras raping, torturing, and murdering suspected Sandinistas or sympathizers, he focused on reports of rape, torture, and murder by contra commanders against their own troops...
...Schorls computations show that the work week and work year have been lengthening for a generation, confirming what many of us know from our own lives and those of our friends: A lot of people are close to working until they drop...
...The escalation for standards of laundering has been a long process, stretching back to colonial times...
...As the war wound down in early 1988, Jhonson was selected as chief investigator of a congressionally mandated review of the contra human rights program...
...The crux of this argument is that Americans wash themselves, their clothes, and their houses too often, thereby negating the benefits from these machines: "Laundry provides the best example of how technology failed to reduce the labor time...
...Methinks I hear the voice of the comfortable, Volvo-riding society of Cambridge, Massachusetts, talking here...
...There are others for whom money is everything, who will avail themselves of almost any opportunity to make a few more bucks...
...Dillon also recounts how the elite corps garnered its evidence: by eliciting statements under torture...
...But Harvard economist Juliet Schor doesn’t think that sounds quite right...
...Business managers in charge of organizations doing things of extraordinary complexity may find Schor's idea of how to shorten the working week difficult to put into effect...
...Abrams quickly labeled any reports of abuse by the freedom fighters outright lies...
...Along the way, Jhonson and his small team of investigators received alarming reports of secret prisons run by the rebels' elite intelligence units, where their own soldiers were being held as enemy infiltrators...
...If he was going to make a fortune off my information, why shouldn't I enjoy a slice of his pie...
...If you count taking care of the house and children, many women may be using cosmetics not to look pretty, but to cover up the fatigue lines...
...This the 'Zen' path to happiness...
...When Dillon turns his attention to the contras' political leaders in the however, he unearths some significant details...
...When Bank Leu turns over Levine's name to the Securities and Exchange Commission, he cannot hide his contempt...
...All this mess is from Sally Quinn’s new novel, a sequel to Regrets Only, which continues the saga of low jinks among Washington’s lofty people...
...By her reckoning, home appliances have saved no labor or toil because her figures tell her that women do the same amount of housework now-about 50 hours a weekas they did at the tum of the century...
...In return for a seventies’ standard of living, employers are now demanding far more hours,” Schor writes...
...Speaking of everything from the vacuum cleaner to the dishwasher, Schor declares, "All this expensive laborsaving technology was an abject failure...
...Yet the rise of capitalism, she says, has stripped this from modem society...
...Kurt Eichenwald Comandos...
...For the production and nonsupervisory employees who make up 80 percent of the labor force, these demands have been substantial...
...Where is the badgering but seductive person who lured others into his life of crime...
...Among the many intimate personal moments, there appear enough newsroom slugfests, behindthescenes preening, leaks, and gossip to satisfy the most ardent news junkies, and to keep them guessing who’s who...
...But in the end, Happy Endings-which, incidentally, has one -is a sensitive and substantive book about relationships, revealing a kinder, gentler Sally Quinn...
...Thus Franklin D. Roosevelt, who spoke eloquently for that point of view, is one of the few political leaders afforded substantial attention...
...The book is all over the lot...
...Our choice, according to the professor, is between head lice and exhaustion...
...If a prisoner failed to "confess" and offer the names of "co-conspirators," the torture continued...
...according to this version, Levine was seemingly willing to commit a crime with Boesky for free, but he was offended at the suggestion that he profit from it...
...Important historical figures fly by, mentioned in passing or crisply accounted for in brief paragraphs...
...The few that are are looked upon as anachronisms...
...Wait a minute...
...At times it seems that, despite his years in prison, Levine still hasn't figured out the law...
...As a wealthy felon, he was able to sell his story...
...They just didn’t matter anymore since shuttle diplomacy, television, direct dial, and the fax had replaced the need for ambassadors...
...Sandra McElwuine The Overworked American...
...Glamorous and tough, she finds herself yearning for more in her life than just a daily deadline...
...Sadie, his sex-starved Southern widow, indulges in a passionate fling with Desmond Shaw-the dynamic, roguish editor of a national news magazine-and unbeknownst to him, gives birth to his son...
...Nonetheless...
...Their heartbreak and mourning are affecting: Here, for the first time, Poison Pen Quinn shows she can write a good, old-fashioned weepy novel...
...He learned that virtually every prisoner was tortured and that virtually every woman detainee was systematically raped-in some cases for months on end...
...This country has plenty of workaholics-people for whom work is an escape, an obsession, or, if they have nothing better to do, the default option, and who will not be interested in my proposal...
...Theirs was a system of tribunals where the judges and jury were rebel peers and where the maximum sentence was mere expulsion from the contras’ ranks...
...KnopJ $30...
...Dillon's recounting of Jhonson's efforts is compelling, but he deals with only a narrow part of the broad picture...
...Why was Levine, an investment banker trained to know the meaning of fiduciary duty, feeding information worth "a fortune" a stock speculator...
...She is not a happy capitalist camper...
...But those generous press protections for statements about private persons were severely cut back in 1974, and the Federal Communications Commission repealed the fairness doctrine in 1987...
...Using CIA funds do that is a crime by any other name.Dillon also provides a glimpse of the guerrilla war waged within the administrationa drama pitting professional civil servants against ideologically driven political appointees...
...Nevertheless, it is as a savage observer of D.C.’s peculiar manners and morals that Quinn is at her best...
...Through interviews, book tours, and advertisements, he has finally made it back to the position he thought he deserved as a criminal: laughing all the way to the bank...
...As you move up the graph toward more leisure, you move down toward cooties...
...POLITICAL BOOKNOTES Inside Out: An Insider’s Account of Wall Street...
...In the end, one puts this book down wondering if it will count toward getting the author tenure-a lifetime job specially suited for resisting the temptation to sell one's or succumb to the obsessive-addictive seduction of long, stress-filled days on the job...
...The more pondered, the more I wondered why had been so reluctant to accept Boesky's offer...
...In my usual manner, I studied everything I could find concerning Lehman Brothers and Gleacher...
...Not that everybody putting in long days at the office is working rather than simply taking up space...
...The book ends with a discussion of ways to lessen the hours of work...
...it is not even about the Bill of Rights...
...He has slapped together a thoroughly unbelievable, self-promoting tome that rounds out his career perfectly: an unremarkable investment banker turned unimaginative crook turned lousy author...
...Yes indeed, ancient Rome had many more play days than we have today, but, slavery aside, leisure was more a burden than a blessing...
...and laborers who battled for rights of association and a 10-then 8-hour day...
...down any street and tell the inhabitants to get rid of their washing machines but keep their microwaves, and see what happens...
...Dennis Levine is a self-proclaimed reformed crook who, if his book shows anything, still does not comprehend the magnitude of what he did...
...If bluecollar, labor union featherbedding has mostly been stamped out, white-collar featherbedding in government and private sector corporations seemingly goes on, even in recessionary times, though perhaps on a diminished scale...
...If you can’t be president then the name of the game is to be as close as possible to whoever the son-of-a-bitch is...
...One page later, Levine tips his hand to his own legal blindness...
...Nonetheless, the authors do offer us many role models for creating that hoped-for progress: people who, like Frederick Douglas, understood that the “limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress...
...No matter how many stories were written about these fellows with seemingly limitless greed, nothing could be more fascinating than one of them describing the behind-the-scenes action...
...What happened to the office break-in to obtain more inside information, as detailed in James Stewart's Den Thieves...
...Unfortunately, he obtained much of that information illegally, while his bosses turned a blind eye to the lawbreaker in their midst...
...Americans are lectured on their softness, sloth, and indolence...
...Moreover, the opinion that material goods only serve to make unhappy and unworthy is one usually held by people relatively rich in the self-same goods...
...President Wilson’s crucial support for the women’s suffrage amendment is noted, but his support-given kicking and screaming against his will-was the culmination of more than a half century of agitation by the women’s movement...
...Although much of the book concentrates on these three groups, there is more, including the Jews’ escape from Egyptian slavery, the struggles and intellectual history leading to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the debates over the idea of private property in American history, and even a section on international human rights...
...Where, in this bright portrait, are all of Levine's now famous complaints that he was never paid enough, even when he received a million bonus...
...Comandos hails itself as “the first book to tell the rebel army’s full story...
...Since the Iran-contra scandal broke in November 1986, several volumes of drab prose have piled up on my shelf, some penned by reporters who have claimed to offer the “inside” story...
...Now Levine is back, peddling his own story for even more profits...
...Roman citizens used that leisure time Schor speaks of for rioting...
...African Americans from abolitionist Frederick Douglass (“the preeminent American rights advocate of the 19th century”) to today’s civil rights leaders...
...She deserves praise for breaking the chains of her profession, which too often sees people as one-dimensional caricatures, a practice that renders her calling not only dismal, but often nearly useless...
...James MacGregor Burns, Stewart Burns...
...it is not about the Supreme Court...
...Throughout this tedious work, Levine seems nothing more than a dissembler who, five years pleading guilty, has learned from his crimes only that it's best not to get caught...
...Theirs is a life of little or no leisure, a surprising end to the century that social scientists had forecast would see the coming of a leisure glut...
...What the professor advocates is trading more leisure for less money...
...But, with much grand proclamation, he portrays himself as a man whose relatively minor legal violations harmed no one...
...Thus, while the Burnses mention James Madison’s participation in passing the Bill of Rights, they give most of the credit to the “mainly hinterland people” who forced the Federalists to accept rights as the fundamental issue...
...Books of this genre tend toward patriotic banality (“Despite our flaws, what a sweet land of liberty”), alternately focusing on the founding of the Bill of Rights, lavishing praise on James Madison, and then rushing to embrace the Warren court (with homage paid to Justices Holmes and Brandeis along the way...
...Suffice it to say, her anticapitalist excursions belong in another book, because in this one they detract from her presentation and bait the reader into arguing with her, as when she declares that Henry Ford's introduction of the moving assembly line was intended to discipline labor...
...Unfortunately, the promise of such a project is sacrificed for the sake of Levine’s own self-aggrandizement...
...He insists he now knows this was wrong...
...Throughout the book, Levine's newfound morality comes up short...
...Levine always seemed to know what was going on-and was paid well for that...
...Even after his downfall, Levine did not lose his skill at profiting from illgotten gains...
...Steven Shiffrin Happy Endings...
...Sam Dillon...
...Without being snotty about it, it's hard to know what to make of such sentiments...
...They held salons where members of the establishment could get together and socialize, compare notes, exchange political gossip, commiserate, collude...
...I was incensed by the behavior of the Bank Leu officials,” he writes...
...His high morality breaks down even further as he criticizes the bankers for essentially failing to obstruct American justice on his behalf...
...I had spent years guarding the interests of my friends, and I was determined to continue...
...Even when he does something as simple as buying a car, Levine can't help but share with how smart he thinks he is...
...Heaven knows, that would be a blessing for many, especially all those folks working jobs...
...Only a professor of economics could print such nonsense...
...In one of the most obnoxious passages in the book, Levine describes how he and his wife explained to his tearful young son why daddy was going to prison...
...This is the kind of mouthwatering detail that could excite an independent counsel investigating Iran-contra crimes, as just about the only thing these Miami-based founding fathers did was lobby Congress for more contra aid...
...Levine insists he did not trade on the inside based on greed...
...Levine was the first in a line of investment bankers and traders brought down by insider trading charges in what was to become the scandal of all Wall Street scandals...
...Several chunks it are given over to a discussion of leisure in ancient Rome and medieval Europe, where Schor maintains people had more free time...
...For the rebels it was a time of war, and what little justice prevailed was rooted in a military code of conduct adopted from the former regime’s National Guard...
...It turns out that Adolfo "I never took a dime from the CIA" Calero and all the other contra political directors each received a whopping per year CIA salary...
...Nonetheless, he provides a significant contribution to the body of knowledge about the latter years of the contra war...
...Had he done more homework, he could have told that, while rebel intelligence units were extracting tortured confessions, Washington officials were proudly boasting that close CIA supervision and training the rebel forces were paying lofty dividends, as a massive Sandinista spy ring supposedly had been uncovered and dismantled by our allies...
...Breadth has its price, however...
...Along the way, he fingered Ivan Boesky, the stock speculator who in turn offered evidence against Michael R. Milken, the former head of Drexel’s junk bond division and a senior general in the takeover wars...
...According to our calculations, just to reach their 1970 standard of living, they must work 245 more hours, or six-plus extra weeks a year...
...He makes sure to include a few lines about how he "didn't hurt anybody" but merely "broke some business rules...
...The money isn't doing anything for she insists...
...And in so doing he illustrates the importance of continuing the investigation into what really happened in Nicaragua...
...Now we know: They work...
...She seems to think that most people breaking their backs 10 or 12 hours a day on the job are materialistic piggy-wiggies...
...Take just one selfcontradictory scene...
...Its mission...
...Juliet Schor...
...But," writes Schor, plunging ever forward, "couldn't one just as well gain happiness by reducing desires...
...Or those who will sell their souls to the highest-paying job they can find-regardless of its working hours, stress level, effect on their family life, or social implications...
...Faced with the prospect of prison, Levine opted for his greatest trade: He would turn in his friends in exchange for a lighter sentence...
...The dismal science has now discovered the leisure-cootie curve...
...For example, despite their skepticism about the power of law to bring about meaningful social change, the authors find some signs of .hope in First Amendment law: the generous press protections for defamatory statements even as applied to private persons and the fairness doctrine requiring broadcasters to cover issues equitably...
...Only one major appliance has been shown to save significant amounts of time (the microwave oven...
...There are almost none left...
...This book’s publication coincides with the 200th anniversary of the passage of the Bill of Rights, and that might arouse a certain degree of skepticism...
...And so on...
...wanted no part of it," Levine piously writes, even though he was already swapping information with other friends and colleagues, and then trading illegally through his own account at Bank Leu in the Bahamas...
...What's more, Jhonson discovered that CIA trainers had schooled the rebel interrogators and that other CIA officers had been assigned to directly oversee the performance of intelligence and counterintelligence units...
...It is a project that had the potential of being worthwhile...
...She would have believe that the ancient Romans, unlike modems, chose leisure over an overworked, exhausted, materialism...
...In the old days there used to be a number of extremely rich women, widows or wives of establishment men, who acted as catalysts...
...Do you catch a whiff of the notion that work is a form of sickness, mental illness, or moral turpitude...
...Dillon’s heroes are a handful of State Department officials who attempted unsuccessfully to rid the contra army of some of its most notorious thugs...
...Senator Wagner’s devotion to labor’s associational rights goes unquestioned, but “it was the struggles and sacrifices of millions of workers reaching back at least a century that had set the agenda and terms of the debate” over the Wagner Act...
...Dillon deftly documents the frustrationsand ultimate futility-of Jhonson’s efforts to bring some of the most brutal contras to justice...
...Not surprisingly, when Jhonson reportedly tried to inform these and other officials about the rebels' abuse of their captives, his claims were brushed aside...
...Bunk...
...The Roman people, housed in vast neighborhoods five- and six-story, fire-prone tenements without running water or indoor plumbing, were almost as combustible in their leisure as in their habitations...
...The lives ordinary people in the Middle Ages or ancient Greece and Rome may not have been easy, or even pleasant, but they certainly were leisurely," Schor writes...
...When the electric washer was introduced (1925), many Americans enjoyed a clean set of clothes (or at least a fresh shirt or blouse) every Saturday night...
...The idea revolted me,” Levine writes of his decision to talk...
...Schor makes these comparisons with the past in order to indict capitalism for a "structural bias" in favor of work over play or free time...
...William Roswell Grey 111, the President of the United States, gets assassinated while dining at the home of one of Washington’s most ambitious hostesses...
...None of the other highprofile crooks from the eighties has taken pen to paper to try to describe what made him tick...
...Levine stole more than million from other investors-widows, mutual fund managers, maybe youwho didn't have access to the privileged information he was supposed to keep in confidence...
...that is, the administration believed that by altering public perception it could achieve the desired reality...
...She unapologetically injects moral values into her discussion, thereby also separating herself from many of her colleagues who make it a point of pride to withhold opinions about the rights and wrongs of things...
...Kay was aware of my rainmaker reputation...
...This recitation of greatness continues even when Levine is arrested...
...Over and over, the banker-who colleagues describe as a fast-talking, street-smart hustler with little analytical ability-portrays himself as a deft analyst who amazes everyone he meets...
...Although he made more that $1 million a year as an investment banker with Drexel Burnham Lambert, Levine stole confidential information entrusted to investment bankers and used it for his own profit by trading through a bank in the Bahamas in a multimillion-dollar swindle...
...And while the authors’ research is copious, it could not possibly have been comprehensive, and occasional gaffes occur...
...Despite the limitations that usually accompany such ambitious undertakings, the book is worth reading because the authors not only know how to tell an often gripping story, but they also write it from a refreshing political perspective...
...But when Des and Allison are forced to cope with the death of an infant daughter and, as a result, the breakup of their marriage, the tone suddenly softens...
...Schor, a trained social scientist, is way over her head, apparently unfamiliar with what philosophy from the pre-Socratics on has made of these questions...
...By the fifties and sixties we washed after one wearing...
...Still, the Burnses are steadfastly optimistic that change can be forged and forced by broad-scale grassroots movements...
...Slowly the frequency of washing rose...
...With little or no work, the idle plebeian swarm, kept only half-pacified by government bread-and-circus welfare programs, were forever on the verge of mob action...
...In those days, washing would be done once a month at most and, in many families, much less-perhaps four times per year...
...She then attacks Ford for paying assembly-line workers five dollars a day, to percent more than other manufacturers did in The extra money compelled them to be punctual, energetic, and obedient, Schor writes, as though Henry had pulled a fast one on society by this trick-imagine, paying people more money to work longer hours.She gets back on firmer ground when she asserts that businesses are in a position to demand longer hours from their employees with or without raising their salaries during times of less than full employment...
...Brian Burger A People’s Charter: The Pursuit of Rights in America...
...Yet when he writes that officers of Bank Leu violated his instructions by placing his orders through a single broker to cut their cornmission costs, Levine cannot control his complaints about missing out on the savings...
...Any reasonably stout definition of individual liberty will allow each person to decide whether to absent himself from "the insidious cycle of work and spend...
...Judicial figures and political leaders do not go unmentioned, but their role is in most cases incidental...
...When Boesky approached Levine about paying him for information, Levine writes that he was "shocked" that the stock speculator would make offer...
...One page later, the moral songbird is singing, back in the role he is known for-a man willing to cut any deal to save himself...
...Dragging his poor child into this story was bad enough, but describing the lies he told to the boy makes it all the worse...
...Without detracting from Ford's achievement, one can say that the flow-through manufacturing approach was a long time in development in other businesses, where the best organization of work was also part of the story of industrial invention...
...This book's snobby, impractical, out-oftouch passages validate the dismissive criticisms made about university professors...
...The percentage of the population who reported being 'very happy' peaked in 1957, according to two national polls...
...Regardless of that, Schor pushes for a cutback in working time, although she knows "there would be hard-core resisters...
...Stomaching Inside Out is made harder as Levine repeatedly trumpets his own brilliance...
...It is a perspective that argues that emancipatory groups have too often settled for too little-ne that regards the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment as a gain for the women’s movement, as its defeat brought renewed effort instead of false satisfaction...
...Perhaps that view is too optimistic...
...Des, a lapsed Catholic, turns to God for help, while Allison battles loneliness and despair...
...It is an exasperating anomaly that in a time of painful unemployment, millions of Americans are overworked, though not always overpaid...
...Of course, it comes nowhere close...
...know what you're talking about," a suitably impressed and, of course, anonymous car salesman says to the criminal...
...The messengers of those subversive reports-the press and human rights groups-were, at best, willing dupes of what he called the “Sandinista lobby...
...In particular, they explore the liberation efforts of feminists...
...Nearly everyone wore dirty clothes nearly all the time...
...is a book serious and sincere, so self-evidently written to help, one is reluctant to criticize it...
...Even so, Jhonson faced resistance at every step of his investigation, as rebel leaders took the notion of being held accountable for their actions rather poorly...
...Unfortunately, Des is also the lover and eventual husband of Allison Sterling, the best reporter on the nation’s most powerful newspaper...
...It is embarrassing to the reader who is on her side, who sympathizes with what she believes, but who is saddened by her lack of preparation...
...At worst, they were themselves Sandinista spies...
...Holt, $27...
...By relying heavily on the often self-serving memories of Comandante Jhonson, Dillon fails to offer the kind of critical perspective expected in a reporter’s book...
...They just didn’t matter...
...When confronted by that reality, Levine just fudges...
...Nicholas von Hoffman...
...A People ’s Charter is about grassroots agitation and struggle, not legal documents...
...It's easy to understand why those sleazy episodes did not make it into the book: They cast a bit of doubt on Levine's claims to Of course, Levine had to have something, given that he was well paid on Wall Street...
...Such books tell a tale of unending, enlightened progress, tale increasingly hard to reconcile with the cast of characters now presiding in black robes on the Rehnquist court...
...If such stuff is to pass for evidence, the intellectual rigor once associated with the name of Harvard University is a thing of the past...
...Whether he paid for the information or not, knowingly passing on nonpublic information about a publicly traded company is a crime...
...Again, the view is from Cambridge, Massachusetts, not Knox County, Maine, where live and...
...It warns that hedonistic pleasures are shallow and addictive...
...Sally Quinn...
...To help drive the message home, the administration mounted a multimilliondollar propaganda campaign led by the now-convicted former secretary of state, Elliot Abrams...
...It is also a perspective that stares repression of free speech in the face and shows that such repression has worked politically at many points in American history...
...By God, those bankers violated Bahamian law, the American felon rails over and over...
...Even when there is an event that Levine must address-such as his decision to rat on his friends-he cloaks himself in morality...
...Other tomes were written, or ghost-written, by some of the actors themselves, offering little more than self-justifying bravado...
...Hers seems to be the indignation the sheltered life...
...But she doesn't talk about them...
...Sinion & Schuster, $22...
...Quinn’s characters are on the city’s fast track: They’re clever and brittle as they party in the White House, vacation in plush resorts, and powerlunch at Nora and Bice...
...He seemed suitably impressed with my enthusiasm and basic knowledge...
...They were, Reagan told us, defenders of human rights, “the moral equivalents of our founding fathers,” and certainly worthy of a little CIA support...
...Yet only a handful of books on the contra war are truly noteworthy, including Christopher Dickey’s With the Contras and Roy Gutman’s Banana Diplomacy...
...Her book confirms that, in America, the 40-hour work week is an institution that disappeared into history about the time those old-fashioned, tailfinned automobiles were being driven onto the used car lots...
...We do know that the increasing consumption of the last years has not made happier...
...Dillon follows the the trail of Luis Fley, a contra field commander who went by the nom de guerre Comandante Jhonson [sic...
...Pointing that government statistics minimize apparent unemployment, thereby reducing pressures to do something about it, she heads toward a fertile field of inquiry but stops short of exploring it for Instead, ·Schor chooses to rail at the consumer society in all its manifestations, and do mean all...
...It asks for renunciation, not necessarily of material goods, but of materialism...
...For eight long years, the Reagan White House served the American public romanticized images of the Nicaraguan contras: freedomloving democrats who would rise up and liberate their nation from the shackles of communist tyranny...
...Covering the history of American protest movements in 470 pages precludes in-depth treatment and it risks skating across the surface of much material...
...And indeed he did: the best network of stock speculators, lawyers, and investment bankers on Wall Street...
...The authors provide a well-written overview of these and other historic struggles...
...Some actually increase housework (freezers and washing machines...
...far good with Schor, but after ably stating the facts, her analytical engine develops some serious vibrations, if it does not altogether disintegrate...
...To overcome persistent reports that the contras were little more than a cast of armed banditos...
...Why should Levine be willing to make money off crimes with some Wall Streeters but be offended when the biggest fish of all wants to play the same game...
...Of course, Cambridge has been putting on superior spiritual airs since the time of Brook Farm, but Juliet Schor seems to have little knowledge of her country...
...Perhaps she is right, but "capitalism" is one of those vague expressions like "human nature," which Schor also uses, that leave her argument open to a sea of interpretations...
...Basic, $23...
...431 pages of excuses in apologetic mufti, Levine details what he contends is the truth about how he lied to his friends, lied to his wife, lied to his child, lied to his business associates, and, when the government was on his tail, persuaded others to lie for him...
...Perhaps Harvard's Department of...
...I've done my homework," the criminal preens...
...responded to all of this in my usual fashion," he writes, "by studying as much as could about the phenomenon of white collar crime...
...And this novel serves as a fairly accurate indicator of where today’s political power really is-and isn’t...
...What makes itfun, however, are the vestiges of the vicious old one...
...One is baffled trying to figure how one would run an airplane or diesel engine factory with her versions of flex-time...
...The fallaciousness of this campaign has since been made clear, but for those with lingering doubts about the legacy of the contras, this book by Miami Herald reporter Sam Dillon should help put them to rest...
...At long last, we now know who or what lived in Karl Marx's beard...
...She uses culture, history, and motivations beyond that of the cash nexus-a rare breadth among economists-to make her argument...
...One of the big myths propagated by the Reagan administration was the urgency of winning the war in Nicaragua...
Vol. 24 • January 1992 • No. 1
