Word: bargain
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...just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued. "We cannot accept the implicit bargain." With that, the newspaper announced that it would no longer sell any copies in Singapore...
...anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...
Saddam's threat last week to fire the first shot -- and to target Israel in the bargain -- convinced Jerusalem that a showdown may come in a matter of weeks. In fact, an Israeli intelligence evaluation concluded that war was "highly probable" and warned that Israel would probably be dragged into the conflict...
...HARD BARGAIN by Walter Kirn...
Better still, Kirn's stories live up to the promise of their intriguing come-ons, although in quirky, unpredictable ways. Tranquilizing the dog turns out to be one of the lesser problems facing the young narrator of My Hard Bargain. On the long drive from Wisconsin to Arizona, where he has been told a better life beckons, Wade begins to realize that his parents have not only pulled up stakes but are racing to leave each other as well. The gun that introduces The Steward never goes off. Instead the Midwestern farm boy called upon to protect his grandparents, mother...