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...lost king of Barataria but, good Venetian egalitarians that they are, neither of the supposed brothers wants to be the ruler or knows which actually is. All of which gives them good reason to rule Barataria together and gives G & S good reason to make clever lyrics about people who do not believe in monarchy but have to be king. And this, after all, is the only important point. Gondoliers, which opens with twenty solid minutes of singing, may be the lightest, frothiest, most musical musical G & S ever wrote. And the word is that director John Lundeen is planning...
...powerful ally: their country's legal system. The laws of the Federal Republic, many enacted when Hitler was a fresh memory, strongly guarantee the right of political dissent and put heavy restraints on the investigative and prosecutory powers of the state. A cadre of 70 or so clever young radical lawyers (out of 31,000 practicing attorneys in West Germany) have pushed the system to its libertarian limits. They are not only the terrorists' best friends, but also the worst enemies of the courts...
...acquisition is richer in history than profit. Founded as a high-class men's magazine by Gingrich and two partners, Esquire has been a clever and richly wrought showcase for most major writers of the century, from Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe. But with the rise of raunchier men's books (Hugh Hefner dreamed up Playboy after leaving a $60 a week Esquire promotion-writing job in 1952), and uncertainty about what Esquire's voice should be (the monthly has had four editors in as many years), advertising and circulation have dwindled. Over the past two fiscal...
Traditional auditing methods are powerless to stop sophisticated E.D.P. swindlers because accountants no longer can reconstruct a "paper trail" of records; a clever programmer can order the computer to erase all traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized...
...Onassis fleet remains not only profitable, by most accounts, but has also been updated. Ten aging vessels have been sold; contracts for four new supertankers, which Ari had unwisely ordered before the collapse of the market, have been canceled. A clever deal is in the works in which the Onassis group is expected to buy two supertankers from...