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technological sophistication of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and federal prosecutors since the 1980 Abscam inves- tigation. In Mississippi, for example, 60 county supervisors went to jail recently for taking kickbacks after the FBI mounted a sophisticated "sting" operation. The FBI used high-tech "body wires" to build air- tight cases-the supervisors' own words- on tape.
Still, Witt concedes, new laws and tech- nology are not entirely to blame. Corrup-...
circumstance; welfare states, sheltered some are not. The ones most favored go first. Others follow. protectionism and other And as the pool is exhausted, the hard cases remain-not special arrangements. This only because of the misfortunes and misdeeds of history, but was a compromise Wash- because, for all manner of internal reasons, they do not take ington made when the out- to. . .new ways. They don't like them; they don't want them;
they are discouraged from learning them; if they learn them,...
Western business has shrunk, but commercial loans and sub- sidized loans from institu- tions like the World Bank have not. Overall, a re-markable $1.8 trillion in capital flowed into the Third World between 1956 and 1986. The only plausi- ble explanation, Eberstadt notes, is that Third World governments "are being held to a lower standard of economic performance than those facing their own citizens, international busi- nesses, or the governments of Western countries." That allows the govern-...
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glorification of war, "which few of us would be willing to stomach."
Other critics have faulted Fukuyama for ignoring continuing threats to the liberal idea. True, he says, the communist world could abandon reform. But communism can never regain the moral authority that made it a worldwide challenge to liberal- ism. What about Islamic fundamentalism? "For all of Islam's pretensions of being a universal religion, fundamentalism has had virtually no appeal outside o...
three to one. Its research laboratories in both industry and the uni- versities are second to none.
Where the United States falls on its face, he argues, is in quickly translating basic research into "products and processes for designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing such products." Experience seems to bear this out. American scientists invented the transistor, but in 1953 West- ern Electric licensed the technology to Sony. The rest is history. In 1968, another
U.S. firm,...
16 professionals and 44 support personnel at KKR.
Jensen says that LBOs make the most sense in mature industries-such as steel, chemicals, broadcasting, and brewing- where little further investment can be jus- tified. Public stock ownership still makes sense in fast-growth sectors where oppor- tunities outstrip company resources, such as computers and pharmaceuticals.
Private ownership of industry helped propel West Germany and Japan to eco- nomic success, Jensen believes. And to- day's corporate...
"Warning Symptoms" Ann Dudley ~o~dblatt,
in University of Chicago Magazine (Fall 1989), Robie House, 5757 S. Woodlawn Where Are YOU? Ave., Chicago, 111. 60637.
It is more than a slight exaggeration to say that doctors and patients now seem as likely to meet in court as in the consulting room. But the doctor-patient relationship is clearly not what it once was. How have things come to such a pass? Goldblatt, a lecturer in medical ethics at the University of Chicago, attributes it to a...
's] fear of sacred space, which is a fear of life lived what always appears to be the long odds of faith, goes with its reluc- tance to commit itself to the burden of distin- guishing between revitalizing fresh perspec- tives and faithless subversions. For lack of something worthy of reverential attention it must worship life in its precarious time-bound condition, which means that it must worship youthfulness.
lation by physicians, and perhaps no-fault malpractice insurance can help prevent doctors...
Dominic L. Lasorsa, in Journalism Quarterly (Summer 1989), Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., College of Journalism, Columbia, S.C. 29208-
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Liberal critics were hopping mad in 1987 when ABC broadcast its tedious seven-part miniseries, Amerika. The miniseries' grim depiction of life in a Soviet-occupied United States, they exclaimed, would turn the American people into raving anti-So- viet Rambos. Although Lasorsa, a profes- sor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, does not m...
Dominic L. Lasorsa, in Journalism Quarterly (Summer 1989), Univ. of S.C., 1621 College St., College of Journalism, Columbia, S.C. 29208-
025 1.
Liberal critics were hopping mad in 1987 when ABC broadcast its tedious seven-part miniseries, Amerika. The miniseries' grim depiction of life in a Soviet-occupied United States, they exclaimed, would turn the American people into raving anti-So- viet Rambos. Although Lasorsa, a profes- sor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, does not m...