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...motive for the women's "crime spree," instead of, say, grand theft -- auto, has other advantages as well. For one thing, it ironically restores Thelma and Louise to equality with men -- at least in one realm of action. Says Martha Nussbaum, a philosophy professor at Brown and an expert on women in antiquity: "I think the modern idea that women are gentle and sweet is parochial. Just look at Medea." The Greeks, Nussbaum suggests, understood that crimes are committed by those with the least access to power, which then, as now, included women. "As the ancients said, 'No force...
...mission in Beijing during the 1970s was diplomatic rather than scholarly, but it had the same seductive effect on him. Even now he seems in awe of the Chinese society that he lived in for 14 months. When formulating U.S. policy toward Beijing, he relies entirely on the China expert he respects the most: himself...
Disappointment over the lack of rapid progress toward a collective-security system -- or for that matter toward any of Washington's Middle East policy goals -- is rooted in part in the unrealistically high hopes that were raised by the war's decisive outcome. Says Shireen Hunter, a Middle East expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "The impression was created that we could write our own ticket, and that...
...British assistant under secretary for Middle Eastern affairs, declared that in its handling of the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Israel is little or no better than any other Middle Eastern state in terms of its militarism, standard of democracy and denial of human rights. The Foreign Office expert attributed the instability of the region to "Israel's refusal to allow the Palestinians to have the same rights as those they claim for themselves." After his unusually candid comments surfaced in the British press, Gore-Booth was quick to call them his "personal views." But the senior diplomat...
...hotel business because in the past decade they helped finance a building frenzy that dumped thousands of new rooms on an already glutted market, with disastrous results. Six of every ten hotels in the U.S. aren't able to make a penny in profit, says Bjorn Hanson, an industry expert with the Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm. As losses mount, so do loan defaults, which have forced lenders to foreclose on a record number of ailing properties. More than 3,000 have reverted to lenders in the past three years, and experts expect an additional 7,000 to be repossessed...