Word: annelies
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...against working-class people. Whatever the motivation, it is vital for banks and financial institutions to find ways to protect themselves against such crusaders. Claus Faye-Thilesen Drammen, Norway COMPANIES, IN THEIR AVARICE, ARE IGNORING age and experience in favor of ego and ambition. And look at the results. Ann G. McDonald Omaha, Nebraska EVERY DOLLAR THAT LEESON LOST WAS gained by someone else. Somewhere there are many happy, newly rich people. It is doubtful they are overly distressed by Barings' losses. Americans had a similar experience a few years ago, when our own brand of high-rolling financial experts...
...York attained its now partly lost eminence is the grand theme of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25), a detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
...child care and permit some ill and disabled immigrants to continue to receive welfare benefits. Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) said her amendment would add $150 million a year to the $1.94 billion for child care, but Democrats called it a drop in the bucket. Quoting former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), paraphrasing former Texas governor Ann Richards said: "You can put lipstick on a sow and call it Monique but it's still...
...Crash of 1929, New York emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis."MONEY
Leads Laurie Ann McGowan (who will alternate performances with Alexis Zeiff Martin) as Mimi and Frank Ragsdale as Rodolfo are warm if low-key lovers. Vocal prowess combined with comfortable English diction compensate for somewhat subdued interaction on both parts. (Those who saw "La Traviata" last year can't help but feel a pang of deja vu as McGowan lies dying of tuberculosis in the fourth act with Ragsdale clasping her palm...