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Running a large corporation in the hard-driving Japanese economy has always been a tough job, but these days it may be a fatal one as well. The chief executives of at least twelve major companies, including Seiko Epson, Kawasaki Steel and All Nippon Airways, have all died suddenly this year. The unusually high toll in executive suites -- there were only a third as many comparable deaths in all of 1986 -- is as mysterious as it is macabre. Most victims have been in their 50s and 60s, too young to die in a country where the average male life expectancy...
Hope, pugnacity, desperation. And the entertainer's belief that, against fatal odds, the show must go on. These may be the only emotional weapons an artist can marshal against a disease that has sapped America's artistic community. Star-studded evenings like the Madonna concert and the Ludlam memorial have become depressingly frequent occasions for New York's beau monde. In October, 13 prominent dance companies will appear in Dancing for Life, which should raise $1.5 million for four AIDS groups. In November, Leonard Bernstein, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price and other luminaries will stage a Carnegie Hall concert to cadge...
...unseasonable Christmas lights and have a party. The other two boys soon grow uncomfortable in the competitive world, and a sister concludes that her parents and siblings are "like . . . a family of elves . . . If one leaves, none of the rest of us grow up." Wise child. The children's fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph...
...middle ground is impossible because Washington's goal is to deploy SDI and Moscow's goal is to do away with the program; a long delay, he argues, would in effect kill it. But Schlesinger, who does not believe that a delay in deploying SDI would necessarily be fatal to the program, says the outline of a grand compromise is already in place: "No deployment of SDI for ten to 15 years, carefully specified limitations on the testing of components outside the laboratory, and a 50% reduction in offensive weapons carefully contrived to reduce concern about a first strike...
...remaining defendants to continue to work at the plant, but they were demoted and required to notify authorities regularly of their whereabouts. Included among them are Alexander Kovalenko, 45, who supervised the No. 4 reactor, and Boris Rogozhkin, 52, the boss of the midnight-to-8 a.m. shift (the fatal explosions occurred at 1:25 a.m.). Both could receive ten- year sentences. The sixth defendant, Government Inspector Yuri Laushkin, 50, faces up to two years in prison for failing to carry out his responsibilities...