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...edge, cutting a corner, telling a lie, then many otherwise moral people will choose to survive. The economy will, of course, improve; but the hangover from the recession may stick around: the impression that doing business, earning a living, is a con game, with rewards going to the clever and the unscrupulous...
Mali, Liberia and Congo have announced legal moves to recover assets they say were stolen under previous one-party regimes. In the case of Mali, the Swiss Foreign Ministry has decided to reroute part of its country's aid to Mali to pay for Swiss lawyers -- clever rerouting -- to investigate whether Swiss aid money was wrongfully deposited in Swiss banks during the 23-year reign of deposed President Moussa Traore. Nigerian President Ibrahim Babangida has a bolder if unrealistic idea: he suggested last year that African states might demand reparations from the West for the damage done by the slave...
...BOTTOM LINE: Two thrillers from clever directors. One outsmarts the audience; the other outsmarts itself...
...opening scenes is independently very funny, but is unconnected to the rest. The play threatens to remain disjointed throughout--fortunately, it becomes more cohesive as its characters begin to interact. "Strangers On Earth" is about five people; each is introduced alone, each in a scene with a clever twist...
...card, while Coca-Cola has plunked down $33 million to become the official soft drink. Challengers, who pay no entry fee to play, attempt to disrupt the exclusive promotional campaigns with disguised Olympic tie-in ads of their own. American Express denies that it is playing ambush. Instead its clever effort, unveiled last week, is billed as "corrective advertising," aimed at misperceptions fostered by Visa advertising that the American Express card is not accepted in Barcelona. "The Olympics don't take American Express," warns Visa. Counters the American Express ad: "And remember, to visit Spain, you don't need...