Word: bonde
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Council members of the Jicarilla Apache tribe were jubilant last week as they gathered to discuss the use of 55,000 acres of new tribal land. The Jicarilla Apaches had paid for the land with $30.2 million raised by selling tribal revenue bonds, the first offering under a 1983 federal law that permits Indian tribal governments to enter the municipal bond market. Said Jicarilla President Leonard Atole: "We desired this fertile land for future economic development and for the housing needs of our people. The bond issue allows us to manage our financing needs without relying on the Federal Government...
ARRESTED. Sean Penn, 24, publicity-shunning actor currently filming At Close Range in Tennessee; on two counts of assault and battery after he allegedly attacked a photographer and a reporter who were stalking him and Fiancee Madonna; in Nashville. Penn was released on $1,000 bond...
...even told their four children about it. "All I tried to do was tell them their father was not a good person, but he was still their father," she said. After turning John in, she remained concerned about him. "I wanted to give John a chance to run. That bond goes a lot deeper than you think...
Even in fiction, espionage is treated as the dirty little secret of modern international politics. James Bond is good escapist fun, but the world of John le Carre is recognized as the real thing. The bookish, perpetually cuckolded George Smiley is not a hero because he champions Western civilization; rather, he is the melancholy rationalist, penetrating the ingenuity of other people's deceit. He is more honest, and braver in his honesty, than his colleagues. Yes, he fights Karla, his Soviet counterpart, but Smiley also does battle against the corruption of his own organization and society...
...Randolph, the late James Mason, whose last performance this was, is superb in his distracted eccentricity, especially in a scene with John Gielgud, who plays an animal- rights enthusiast dangerously disrupting the shoot. And there is another good performance by Cheryl Campbell as a coolly amoral aristocrat. Julian Bond's script is curtly literate, Alan Bridges' direction is more Masterpiece Theatre than The Rules of the Game. Still, as Winston Churchill once said, "The old world in its sunset was fair to see," and some of that ironic glow lights The Shooting Party...