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...arrives, all right, only to be enmeshed in a tricky fate that somewhat resembles the ending of Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. There a Briton, made captive in the jungle by a fellow Briton, finds that he must spend the rest of his life reading Dickens aloud for his cap tor's delectation...
...works of Ralph Nader and John Gardner would be chanted aloud at Evensong in the Savanarola Chapel of Memorial Church...
...pens and pencils and different inks. His favorite photographs (23 of the duchess alone) stand on his mantel and bookcases, all exactly as he left them. Every night the duchess comes to his bedroom before retiring to her own. She makes sure that everything is in place, then says aloud: "Good night, David...
...last pizza is usually served around 3 a.m. Frank is in the store all 18 hours, seven days a week. "Sometimes I sleep to 9:30," he feels compelled to add. Frank does like to work, but not 18 hours a day. "Maybe 10 hours be good," he thinks aloud a bit dreamily. "Maybe I work five more years here, and then start high-class restaurant...
...debate over multinational corporations has traditionally been carried on between industrialized nations, which saw the giant firms as creators of needed economic growth, and Third World nations, which often regarded them as agents of "neo-Imperialism." Lately, even economists and political leaders of larger nations have wondered aloud whether the multinationals might indeed be growing too large, too far beyond any government's control. Last week the United Nations held its first hearings on a subject that some members regard as one of the organization's central missions during the century's last quarter: finding...