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Tory knows returning to Progress will mean facing Hope's twin sister Faith and her elder brother Kincade, who is now the handsome master of Beaux Reves. Tory believes she has come back to found a gift shop and to prove that the dirt-poor child that townsfolk once knew has grown into a polished and self-sufficient businesswoman. But experienced romance readers will know that Tory's true purpose in the book is to hook up with Cade Lavelle and become mistress of Beaux Reves...
Before Lindner bought in, Chiquita Brands was the old United Fruit Co., a ruthless buccaneer that earned a justifiable reputation as a tyrant that bribed officials of foreign governments, used armed force to keep its workers in line and generally mistreated its thousands of dirt-poor laborers on impoverished Caribbean islands and Central American plantations. All of which helps explain why Chiquita was--and is--the world's dominant banana producer...
...five years investigating the death of Eric McGinnis. In The Other Side of the River (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday; 317 pages; $24.95), Kotlowitz attempts a kind of narrative mediation, shuttling back and forth across the bridge between the white and black universes--the somewhat gentrified white St. Joseph and the dirt-poor Benton Harbor, with its drug gangs and the highest murder rate in the country...
...will rest on two ingredients: the cooperation of Israel and the presence of a competent, politically open Palestinian administration. On both counts, a chastening lesson comes from the Gaza Strip, where self-rule began with the establishment of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in May 1994. That dust-blown, dirt-poor piece of land, home to nearly a million Palestinians, is as sad a place now as it was then--and Israelis and Palestinians share the blame for its mood of discontent...
While luring new industry is certainly a defensible -- indeed inevitable -- goal for a dirt-poor Southern state, Clinton's relations with organized labor have at times been testy. Critics charge that Clinton has given away too much through the concessions, continued a tax structure that unfairly favors business over middle-class wage earners and fostered a low-wage, antiunion climate. In 1990 the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, run by Clinton appointees, arranged a $300,000 loan for Morrilton Plastics, a company that made parts for Detroit automakers, enabling it to build up inventory in anticipation of a strike...