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Poor Diana Trilling! Paperback rights for her new book brought only $125,000. The publishing industry must be suffering from hard times indeed. Invested in a money-market fund, that sum will only net her a yearly income of around $17,000, without her having to lift a finger. Poor woman! How will she make ends meet...
Fisher concedes that misleading computer entries were made, but says that they were only to help project future revenues and not to indicate actual sales. He points a finger at Luisi's former second-in-command, Michael Tremper, 42, another senior vice president. Tremper has agreed to help the company unravel its records in exchange for an agreement that the company will not sue him. Fisher claims that his client is a scapegoat. Says he: "Ms. Luisi has been singled out as responsible for a $30 million mistake that was beyond her responsibility...
When the conservative revisionists argue that communism is the source of all hardship in Indochina, they hypocritically ignore the more important role of America's twisted, self-destructive foreign policy. And when they point a quavering finger at the red specter looming over Central America, they make the same egregious over-sign. The United States planted the seed of violent conflict in nations such as Salvador and Nicaragua by maintaining obedient dictatorships and failing to nuture genuine democracy. It is the force of war that rips the soul from third world societies, not the power of one or another...
...firestorm of protest in Europe against what many there see as the clear and present danger of nuclear war on the Continent. While ostensibly aimed at both superpowers, the political agitation in Western Europe has a distinctly anti-American, naively neutralist, even pacifist flavor. Worries about Reagan's finger on the nuclear trigger have also affected politicians who otherwise are in favor of the alliance and are by no means anti-American. Even so staunch a U.S. friend as Britain's former Prime Minister James Callaghan complained in the Times of London: "There is growing up a basic difference between...
...opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures" and that her crystal finger bowls symbolize "a neurotic obsession with cleanliness associated with the guilt of the last stages of capitalism...