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Proving that function and style can go hand in hand, Head, Rossignol and Dynastar have developed women's skis (some with rhinestones and other flourishes) that run from a few hundred dollars up to $1,000. Today they account for about 10% of the total ski market. But manufacturers say that could very well jump to 50% in the next five years, considering two points: sales of women's ski equipment climbed from $159 million during the 2004-05 season to $175 million last year--a 10% increase--while overall women's ski-related sales jumped an impressive 18%, from...
...Washington Post reported that some proceeds from the Iran sales had been placed in a CIA-managed Swiss bank account also used to fund the rebel forces in Afghanistan as well as Jonas Savimbi's troops fighting the Marxist government in Angola. Citing a "well-placed senior Administration official," the Post claimed the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had each placed $250 million in the account this year. Commingling the Iranian proceeds with these funds was described by the Post's source as a "dumb" mistake by an impatient CIA employee who did not wait for the creation of a separate...
...imagine I'll ever forget, in The Shadow of the Sun, an account of sharing space with a furious cobra, or, in Another Day of Life, his lonely admission of dependency on daily telex connections with Warsaw, when he "felt like a wanderer in the desert who catches sight of a spring." And there are lines that resonate today, some of which I found last night flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most...
...There are places in the same book where, against his own advice, he generalizes unfortunately about Africa and Africans. There are also some factual errors, and, I'd imagine, places where he aims to articulate a deeper truth rather than give a strictly factual account. But in rendering scenes such as this, he was at his best, depicting the dynamics at work among a group of people in response to capricious circumstance. I also thought it a pitch-perfect description of this man's cancer-a source of misery, without question, but one that drew many people together, if even...
...fact, I've had to buy several of his books more than once. I read them then give them away, wanting to share them with people close to me. But then I miss them, miss being able to open a copy of, say, Another Day of Life-an account, which I happen to have with me, of the last days of Portuguese rule in Angola-and reading a line like the following, "To this day I don't know why he let me go. He might have been one of those people you meet sometimes who get less...