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Translating Homer ter Jones, in Encounter (Jan. 1988),44 Great
Windmill St., London W1V 7PA, United King-
dom.
The Roman statesman Cato the Elder (234-149 B.c.) counseled young orators: rem tene, verba sequenturÃ?â??6'Kee a grip on the argument, and the words will follow." Jones, a senior lecturer in classics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, agrees with Cato's advice. Translators, he argues, should conserve each sentence in the original text.
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Soviet unemployment, according to The Economist, takes three forms. Some is "frictional"; at any time, two percent of all Soviet workers are moving to new jobs. Another one percent are "parasites," those who lack formal employment-vagabonds, black marketeers, and dissidents. (Poet Joseph Brodsky, the 1987 Nobel laureate, was once classed as a parasite.)
But the biggest problem is "hidden unemployment." There are un- counted millions of Soviets who have jobs but produce...
John P.
Bums, in Problems of Communism (Sept.-Oct.
19871, U.S. Information Agency, 301 4th St.
S.W., Washington, D.C. 20547.
In the Soviet Union, the Communist Party exercises power through the nomenklatura (nomenclature), the patronage system under which the Po- litburo directly controls key positions in most political, governmental, so- cial, and cultural organizations. However, all Communist states use such a system. In China, says Bums, a political scientist at the University of Hong Kong, t...
Jawaharlal Nehru) who ruled India after independence from Britain in 1947 believed that centralized planning and curbs on corporations were the keys to economic develop- ment. Led family-owned "business houses" (such as the Tatas of Bom- bay and the Birlas of Calcutta) descended from old trading firms, India's industrialists accepted Nehru's socialist restrictions rather than risk na- tionalization under a more radical regime. They chose to gain influence through massive campaign contributions...
public agencies and private institutions
"Abortion and Divorce in Western Law."
Harvard Univ. Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. 197 pp. $25.
Author: Mary Ann Glendon
Until two decades ago, most Western na-
tions imposed tight restrictions on the ter-
mination of both marriages and pregnan-
cies. Abortion was allowed only if the
mother's life was in danger; divorces were
usually granted the courts only on
grounds of "marital offenses"-cruelty,
adultery, o...
~andyE.
Bamett, in Humane Studies Review (WinterAmendment 1987-88), Institute for Humane Studies, 4400
University Dr., Fairfax, Va. 22030.
Over the years, most of the 10amendments in the Bill of Rights have been extensively debated, in and out of the courts. Yet the Ninth Amendment, which states that rights not enumerated in the Constitution are "retained the people," remains relatively untested. It has never been used to decide a Supreme Court case. Today some conservatives (e.g.,...
the Eter- nal, you'll sink me with you."
"The 'Van Buren Jinx': Vice Presidents Need Not Beware" George Sugiovanni, in Presi-
As Candidates dential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1988), Cen- ter for the Study of the Presidency, 208 East 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
As George Bush continues his drive for the White House, he faces a barrier that has long seemed all but insurmountable: the "VanBuren jinx." The last sitting vice president to be elected chief executive was M...
Southern Democrats in a party split that enabled Abraham
Lincoln to lead his Republicans to victory. Charles Fairbanks was so dis-
liked his boss, Theodore Roosevelt, that in 1908 TR swung the G.0.R
nomination to his secretary of war, William Howard Taft.
The vice presidents' fortunes, Sirgiovanni argues, began to change
during the 1950s. Dwight Eisenhower's vice president, Richard Nixon,
transformed the office. Meeting with heads of state and serving as acting
president twice when Ike was...
Kathleen Sylvester, in Governing (April 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20037.
The 200,000-member Navajo tribe in Arizona owns 16 million acres. Its Tribal Council manages a $209 million budget. Yet the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversees the nation's 507 recognized tribes of Indians and Alaska natives, rules on such matters as cutting trees and the leasing of property on the reservation. Navajo police cannot investigate rapes and 17 other "major crimesu-these are under...
Kathleen Sylvester, in Governing (April 1988), 1414 22nd St. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20037.
The 200,000-member Navajo tribe in Arizona owns 16 million acres. Its Tribal Council manages a $209 million budget. Yet the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which oversees the nation's 507 recognized tribes of Indians and Alaska natives, rules on such matters as cutting trees and the leasing of property on the reservation. Navajo police cannot investigate rapes and 17 other "major crimesu-these are under...