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...mutual bliss, Bernard abruptly becomes detached and preoccupied. Laura, growing frantic, assumes that she is being supplanted by another woman. Bernard is ashamed to tell her the real reason for his dwindling ardor: the appearance at his radio station of a stranger who gives him a diploma-like document, handsomely executed and lettered, that reads, "Bernard Bertrand is hereby declared a Complete Ass." This bit of malevolence unhinges him because it makes him realize that many people, perhaps all of Paris, may have the same unflattering opinion of him and that there is no way he can change or escape...
...document's most immediate effect was to strengthen Gorbachev as he walked into the party plenum assembled in the Kremlin to denounce him for his failure to bring the country to order. It proved he could make progress on the crucial issue of the union treaty, even garnering Yeltsin's support. It also reminded the communist chieftains that he does not depend solely on them for his political authority...
...replied in a three-page statement that lauded the company's performance since Araskog became chief executive. He "has literally caused ITT to be transformed over the past decade," the document says. Among other things, Araskog made ITT far less unwieldy by selling off more than 200 of its 275 subsidiaries. He also helped raise the value of the company's stock by spending nearly $2 billion to buy back shares. As a result, the statement says, Araskog's compensation "is at a level which is believed appropriate for bringing to ITT the benefits which have come to the corporation...
Environmentalists have traditionally used confrontation to call attention to their cause, but Sam LaBudde, a San Francisco biologist, chose a more subtle tactic: he became a spy. His mission was to document the indiscriminate slaughter of dolphins by fishermen using mile-long purse seines to catch tuna in the Pacific...
Japan had only a tiny environmental movement when Kuroda founded the Japan Tropical Action Network in 1987. One of his first projects was to document Japan's huge role in the tropical-timber trade in a study published by the World Wildlife Fund. To make sure the message hit home, Kuroda staged a series of publicity stunts in Tokyo. In 1989, he marshaled the press in front of Marubeni, a timber importer, and presented bewildered officials with a giant cardboard chainsaw as a grand prize for rain-forest destruction...