Word: die
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...issues. When a scandal erupted earlier this year over the illegal construction of homes on the crucial dike system protecting Hanoi from the Red River, Kiet had to step in and resolve it. "That's still better than the old days," says a Hanoi bureaucrat. "Then, if you were dying and needed a blood transfusion, you'd have to get Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to sign off." Vietnam's leaders surely know that central control will not work in a market economy--and that Vietnam's future depends on loosening up. Still, old habits die hard...
...February in central Idaho was shot last month, supposedly because it had killed a calf. Not true; investigation showed, as Askins says without much surprise, "the wolf was framed." She and other wolf activists realized the most likely cause of death for Yellowstone wolves would be gunfire from die-hard wolf haters. So they took a risk, listing the Yellowstone and Idaho wolves not as fully protected endangered animals, which would have provoked retaliation, but as an experimental population that can be controlled if it is troublesome. Some ranchers were reassured, and the plan went forward...
Much is made of Nauman's use of words. His slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...
...nearly two decades, Harvard administrators have debated an issue that will not die...
Jessica Lange is a firebrand beside Neeson's drooping bulk, even if she is saddled with the stiff-upper-lip female role. And Brian McCardie, who plays the eager young Alasdair MacGregor, is an adorable hyperbole. Of course, he has to die...