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...Georgia's first freely elected President, only to stun everyone again, this time by forging a brutish dictatorship whose excesses provoked his own violent ouster. Last week, after a 20-month exile in which he fought an unsuccessful war to regain power, Zviad Gamsakhurdia carried out his most baffling flourish yet, shrouding his apparent death in the same jumble of contradictions with which he lived his life...
...determination to throttle the Semitic Museum is nothing less than the definition of a field. God bless the Philistines interred at Ashkelon, and God bless those who have exhumed their remains. But Semitic scholarship is no longer riveted simply on monuments and shards. Semitic cultures and civilizations survive and flourish in our time. President Eliot and Jacob Schiff understood that this would be so, and the men and women who reopened the Semitic Museum in 1982 understood this, too. Over the last decade the Museum has exemplified the extension of the field from an exclusive concentration on the Semites...
When Alexander James Trotman was named chairman of the Ford Motor Co. in October, there was no flourish or fanfare, not even a prior announcement. He was handed the keys to one of the largest and most powerful corporate kingdoms on earth in a small, no-frills gathering at the company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan, almost as an afterthought to the introduction of Ford's new Mustang. At General Motors 11 months earlier, affable, unassuming Jack Smith landed just as unceremoniously in that company's top job. Following the virulent boardroom coup that ousted his predecessor, chairman Robert Stempel...
...Should global warming continue, scientists now fear, certain infectious diseases may flourish as the range of disease-bearing mosquitoes and other insects expands outward from the tropics...
...Witness Protection Program since 1991. According to the report (see opposite page), D'Arco revealed that Carey was tied to La Cosa Nostra through the late Joseph ("Joe Shrugs") Trerotola, a legendary Teamster kingmaker who resigned in 1991 at age 82 amid charges he allowed organized crime to flourish in the union...