THE PRICE OF GRAMM-RUDMAN Can We Afford to Balance the Budget? BY PAUL DAVIDSON Public opinion polls taken in recent months have indicated that a large majority of citizens favors reducing the...
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TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT How 'La Crisis' Is Crippling Mexico BY FORREST D COLBURN Hermosillo Mexico's most prestigious daily, Exc&sior, publishes a magazine of news and commentary every Thursday...
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LEARNING TO GOVERN Mulroney's Challenge in Canada BY HAROLD M. WALLER Montreal In Canada winter is a time to get things done. The relatively short summer is valued so highly that efforts are...
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DYNASTIC POLITICS INDIAN STYLE Celebrating the Congress Party Centennial by darryl d'monte Bombay It was the political carnival to end all carnivals, a veritable Cecil B. DeMille production. A...
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States of the Union BRING US TO THIS HOVEL BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Kent: Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest.... Lear: The art of our...
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Writers & Writing THE OTHER WORDSWORTH BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Few in the gallery of literary sisters and brothers are more intriguing, or lately more controversial, than Dorothy and William...
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Keeping the Media Honest Untended Gates: The Mismanaged Press By Norman E. Isaacs Columbia. 258 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Robert Bendiner Former member, New York Times Editorial Board Before...
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Recalling a Forgotten War The Korean War: Pusan to Chosin, An Oral History By Donald Knox Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 690 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of History,...
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On Screen A SMALL GEM BY DAPHNE MERKIN Increasingly of late, it seems to me the only intelligent thing to do in the face of that modern behemoth known as the movie industry is lie down and submit...
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On Dance MIXED MARK MORRIS BY LAURA A. JACOBS Mark Morris brought his company to New York last month for its much awaited two-week concert at the Dance Theater Workshop, an alternate space...
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Dear Editor Bhagwati Jagdish N. Bhagwati's review of Lester Thurow's The Zero-Sum Solution ('"Pull Up' Not 'Trickle Down,'" NL, December 16-30, 1985) is, in my view, right on the money. To bolster...
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