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...normal evening; two old school chums are getting together after seven years, catching up on each other's news. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) is particularly eager for Ana (Chunchuna Villafañe) to meet Gaby, the five-year-old girl she and her husband adopted when she was an infant. Late that night the two women sit gossiping and getting tiddly on eggnogs when, without at first modulating her tone, Ana explains why she left Argentina so suddenly, without saying goodbye to anyone. It is a tale of midnight abduction, a blow to her head--and waking up naked, tied...
American bankers were eager to do business with the Soviets because they have a reputation for making debt payments promptly, in contrast to shaky Latin American borrowers. The financiers offered Moscow an unusually good deal. Interest payments will be only one-quarter of a percentage point more than the London Interbank Offered Rate, an international benchmark that currently stands at 8.125%. The bankers are confident that they will not be criticized for giving the Soviets favorable terms. Reason: financially strapped U.S. farmers are in desperate need of boosting their grain sales to Moscow...
...recent study partially funded by the Ford Foundation revealed that many young fathers are not only willing but eager to help their partner and offspring. The project, coordinated by New York City's Bank Street College of Education, offered vocational services, counseling, and prenatal and parenting classes to nearly 400 teenage fathers and prospective fathers in eight U.S. cities. At the end of the two-year program, 82% reported having daily contact with their children; 74% said they contributed to the child's financial support. Almost 90% maintained a relationship with the mother, whom they had known for an average...
...love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than marriage, even for Austen's young women and their eager mothers, and that love should overcome distinctions of class or money...
...next generation of leaders Ambitious, better educated than their elders and eager to use their skills, the young men and women now moving up will help determine whether Deng's reforms succeed or fail...