Game Theory

Chicago. -- From the occasionally bizarre but never dreary precincts of Boulder, Colorado, comes a missive from one John Meyer, by his own account a photographer, a computer tinkerer and a student of the way the world works.Mr. Meyer, who is 59 years old, has developed something he calls the Elliott Wave Theory of History. Regular players of the stock market know the Elliott Wave theory. It was developed by a market analyst named Ralph Elliott in the 1930s, and is one of several cyclical theories of stock permutations.

Washington.--When Earl Weaver was manager of Baltimore's Orioles and bane of American League umpires, he would charge out of the dugout bellowing, ''Are you gonna get any better or is this it?'' Today that question is being asked about the Clinton administration. The answer is: This is it.This is what liberal government looks like -- Lyndon Johnson redux. Consider two examples, the administration's plan for fine-tuning the Balkan civil war, and the administration's plan for fine-tuning the fairness of American society.