Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions of dollars raised overseas is spent for weapons and how much for humanitarian aid. K.L.A. fund raisers in the U.S. insist that the money they contribute to Homeland Calling is used for medical supplies and food. But last year the Swiss government froze one Homeland Calling bank account because Salihu refused to promise its funds would not be used to buy arms...
...money that they pass along to the fund raisers who parade through the countryside. "We all have emptied our pockets because of the obligation we feel toward our ethnic Albanian brothers in Kosovo," he says. Indeed, just last month the farmer sank his entire life savings--$8--into an account to help collect food and supplies for Kosovo's refugees. In return, Bejadini was given a pistachio-colored receipt with no inscription of the collector's name or the purpose of the donation. The voucher--now neatly folded in four--holds pride of place in Bejadini's empty wallet, next...
Watson himself does not speak in the first two novels (the second is Lost Man's River), which are told as conflicting reports by townspeople. Thus the concluding novel, Bone by Bone (Random House; 410 pages; $26.95), which is Watson's own first-person account, appears after 900 pages of teasing preamble. Because the author has advertised his main character as a monstrous enigma, he must now provide the monster. But Watson's villainy doesn't reach heroic stature. He is a likable bully and a good shot. Most notably, he is a brutal drunk. "When I give...
...wealthy family best known for its morbid history; after plunging 14 stories from his apartment; in New York City. In 1955 his mother, a showgirl turned society maven, accidentally shot his father to death at their Long Island estate. In 1975, as Truman Capote was to publish a fictionalized account of Woodward Jr.'s death, she killed herself...
...business schools are opting out because of a feeling, like Mawn's, that they are better off with the work experience, or because of family considerations or a distaste for the business-school climate--or business in general--the fact is that they just aren't going. Women account for only 29% of those in the country's top business schools, and it's been that way since 1994. Meanwhile, other professional-degree programs are educating women in impressive numbers that continue to rise. Women made up 46% of first-year law students in the 1997-98 school year...