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...move is a testimony to Mubarak's diplomatic skills. After most of the Arab world decided to ostracize Egypt over the Camp David accords, Sadat made matters worse by denouncing his onetime allies. He called the ruling family of Saudi Arabia "goatherders" and berated Hussein as a "dwarf." After Sadat's assassination in 1981, however, Mubarak quietly began repairing the damage. He refrained from attacking fellow Arabs in public and ordered Egyptian newspapers to follow his example. At the same time, the Egyptian President down-played his country's relationship with Israel, its treaty partner. Soon after...
...lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda Hunt received the best supporting actress award for playing a male dwarf in The Year of Living Dangerously; and Fanny and Alexander, the last major feature Ingmar Bergman has said he will ever direct, took the prize for best foreign picture...
...seen) painting of that sort, The Guitar Lesson, is not in the show. But others, hardly less remarkable, are. Among them is The Room, 1952-54, whose teen-age girl sprawls in a posture of utter abandon, like a sunbather but in a dark room, while a malicious-looking dwarf yanks back the curtain to flood her body with light...
Knoll said that Barghoorn was "really fabulous" in working with his students on a one-to-one basis. As a group, his former students' achievements in paleobotany "dwarf any comparable list that could be made of anyone else in the same field," Knoll added...
...current job to a failure to meet this need. Such problems as are and, to a lesser extent, water pollution have been addressed in the last decade, and great progress has been made. But Congress realized three years ago that contamination of our world by deadly chemicals could dwarf all previous environmental problems combined. To battle this growing disaster, they created the so-called "Superfund," a $1.6 billion appropriation to the EPA for locating toxic waste, prosecuting law-breakers, and enforcing clean-up and prevention. Mrs. Burford's mismanagement of this fund--including an unaccounted loss of $53.6 million...