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...project. Yet, in the end, this is just another prison movie, a genre that moviemakers love because it is an easy one in which to make antiauthoritarian gestures with out straining very hard for originality or for fine moral distinctions. Scum is a superior example of a familiar breed. By Richard Schickel
...that has changed. When Lawrence Pezzullo first arrived as U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua, he abandoned the monumental official residence for smaller quarters. Pezzullo, 54, is one of a new breed of U.S. envoys in Central America who have come to be called the "activists." Their job is to promote human as and moderate reform, and to build bridges with the opposition as well as with the government. At the same time, they must think fast and, when necessary, take independent action without instructions from Washington. "Perhaps more than ambassadors anywhere else in the world," says one State Department official, "they...
...friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity and hero worship breed resentment, companionship grows boring, need degenerates to dependence, comradeship loses its occasion. Suddenly, it is clear how fragile friendship is, how quickly it can be replaced by enmity, or by nothing...
What makes Bahrain so potentially significant is that Western banks no longer have a virtual monopoly on handling the huge surpluses that the members of OPEC regularly amass-as much as $117 billion this year alone. Instead, a new breed of Arab-owned banks is picking up an expanding percentage of the action. Though new to the game, some of these institutions are starting off with formidable monetary bases. Begun in 1977, Gulf International Bank has assembled assets of nearly $3 billion and is competing with the big U.S. financial institutions in loan underwriting. The newly founded Arab Banking Corp...
...life peer by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1964. Although the practice was uncommon in such circumstances, Lord Snow took out a coat of arms. The design bridged the two cultures, showing two quill pens crossed over a telescope. It also included two Siamese cats, his favorite breed, and a Latin motto that can stand as his epitaph: Aut inveniam viam aut faciam-I shall either find a way or make...