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...butterfly migration, in fact, may turn into an economic boon for the peasants. Last year the locals guided 50,000 sightseers through the region -- for 500 pesos, about 60 cents each. They also conduct a brisk business selling butterfly-motif postcards, posters and tiles supplied to them at cost by Monarca. "Though it seems a very small amount," says Melody Allen, executive director of the Monarch Project, an Oregon-based lobbying organization that concentrates on protecting similar sites in California, "they are charging enough to make more income than they would if they were logging...
...CONVERSATIONS are a sad institution in Harvard undergraduate life. Incredible though it may sound, most students actually seem to believe that they have been assigned more work than everyone else. The result is the brisk negligence of Conversation One and the grotesque verbal blood-bath of Conversation...
Business is brisk for these consultants as a result of the recent rash of mergers, acquisitions and spinoffs. Says Joel Portugal, a partner at Anspach Grossman: "Industry is in a state of flux, and that means business for us." When Bank of Virginia merged with Maryland's Union Trust Bancorp, Anspach Grossman suggested the name Signet for the combined company...
...Commentators do less well with their material but that perhaps is a fault inherent in the play. In any case, a host of other elements join together to make this one-act play a brisk, satisfying show. Szanton's sensitive direction, Friel's delightfully natural dialogue, and the nuanced lead performances compensate for an often unnerving dramatic structure...
...intrigued that he decided to bequest half of his wills and 400 pounds to the workings of this institute of higher education located a brisk half hour horse ride from his parish, now known as the First Church of Charlestown...