Word: accountability
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...compromise did not take into account a new, more solemn controversy. Last year a local physician noticed an unusually high number of cancer-related deaths in the tiny riverside hamlet of Hartford (pop. 300), whose people have always been accustomed to eating fish from the Pigeon River. In May, after EPA tests detected tiny traces of cancer-causing dioxin in fish from the Pigeon, the survivors of one husband and wife, who died of cancer within a month of ! each other, filed a $6 million wrongful-death suit against Champion. The dioxin controversy may tempt Cocke County to take...
...came another call, purportedly from Brown-Forman (makers of Jack Daniel's whiskey). A few code words and computer keystrokes later, and $19.7 ( million slid with the smoothness of sipping bourbon from Brown-Forman's account, through the New York computers of Chase Manhattan Bank and into the account of "Walter Newman" at Vienna's Focobank. At 9:34, an additional $25 million flew from the ledgers of United Airlines to Citibank for relay to the account of "GTL Industries" at Creditanstalt...
Both, too, were profoundly out of fashion for most of the 1970s and '80s, during the era of ferocious antimodernist reaction. But now the pendulum is swinging back again, which may account for this week's eleventh-hour attempt to rehabilitate two modernist reputations at once. Neither prizewinner is interested in making a pretense of mellowness. In the acceptance speech he prepared for his daughter to read, Niemeyer disparaged a "minor architecture made with a ruler and square" and, a bit self-servingly, endorsed the "search for the spectacular." The more plainspoken Bunshaft dismisses apostates and revels in his sense...
...pages away in the World section is Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's inside account of how, after years of feints and frustrations, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next week's Moscow summit. It is a tough subject, but one worth a few minutes' extra attention, and we don't think anyone can tell it better than Talbott, the author of two books on arms control. Not far beyond that story comes Profile, a department we introduced six months...
...tender interlude with John Garfield ("one of the nicest people I've ever known. My mother saw him just once and tried to get him into bed with her"). Capote used such shockers to draw corresponding admissions from subjects he interviewed. Clarke's breezy and sympathetic account inevitably teems with them and is sure to keep tongues wagging busily through the summer...