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However, the quotation from Time supports integration, whereas the Putnam statement is a defense of segregation. Goodheart admits that his "comparisons may seem crude or facile." What else can one call his referring to opposite ideas as "remarkably similar...
...year after Bush came aboard, a reclusive Saudi named Abdullah Taha Bakhsh bought an 11% stake in Harken through a Netherlands Antilles shell company. The Saudi, a tycoon with global interests in oil, real estate and jewelry, hoped Harken could someday serve as a vehicle for moving Saudi crude into the U.S. But the strategy would never come to pass...
...1980s, Harken was bloated and indebted, but it won a windfall. Bahrain, which produces a mere 42,000 bbl. of oil a day (Saudi Arabia's output: more than 8 million), decided to hunt for more crude. In 1989 Bahrain officials suddenly and mysteriously broke off promising talks with Amoco. One minister then telephoned an old friend, Michael Ameen, the respected former head of Mobil's Middle East operations. "They wanted a small American company," claims Ameen, who says he drew a blank. But 10 minutes later, Ameen got a call from an investment banking friend in Arkansas, who recommended...
...work of James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg has lost none of its power. With Oldenburg the vitality comes from his wild metaphors of the world as body -- hard things drooping into softness, small things turning mountainous, a vision that seems to reach back to Bruegel and can make a crude enlarged plaque of some cuts of supermarket meat look like the site of a massacre. With Rosenquist, it is the crude oppositions, engrossing in their pure Americanness. The woman's face rising out of an orange swamp of spaghetti in I Love You with My Ford, 1961, remains...
Many Poles, weary of Tyminski's crude emotionalism and obsessive anti- Semitic rantings, heaved a sigh of relief. His special enemy is ex- Solidarity activist Adam Michnik, editor in chief of Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza, whose paper noted two months ago how quickly Tyminski had supported the Soviet coup. The next day Tyminski sent a chicken carcass to the paper, characterizing it as carrion for carrion. Tyminski's political role is marginal in any case. The Poles' real concern is their economy, which has failed to rebound since the fall of communism...