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...Amin was elected to fill the vacant seat. He subsequently earned a reputation in his own right as an active and thoughtful legislator. He is an eloquent speaker, something highly prized in Arab politics, and is fluent in French and English, as well as in Arabic. In addition to running prosperous family shipping and insurance interests, he founded a conservative French-language newspaper, Le Reveil, located in Beirut. Says Pierre: "Amin has his weaknesses. I know; I raised him. But he is also a person of character, of strong values, and I know that he will use them strongly...
Here the Jellicle cats, a flighty, exuberant lot full of larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
...Arab position. If el-Baz agreed to something, the other Egyptian aides would go along, and I could always override him, if necessary, by going directly to Sadat. At the same time, I could depend on Barak to influence Begin. Both Barak and el-Baz were brilliant draftsmen, fluent in English, and they understood the nuances of the difficult phrases with which we had to work. Vance stayed with me during these long sessions, and the four of us made painstaking but steady progress on the main document...
...headlined one story, IN ITS SMALL PERSON ALL OUR TRIBAL HISTORY. Commentators were quick to point out that the Prince will come of age in the year 2000, which will make him a young man of the 21st century. Thus, they noted, he should be widely and democratically traveled, fluent in at least one or two foreign languages, and more intensively and extensively educated than any other monarch in Britain's history. Above all, even while perpetuating the mystique of monarchy, he will need to be at home with computers and the whole array of space-age technology that...
Since then, the guest list has grown larger and less manageable. Increasing numbers of arriving foreigners have been fluent in Chinese and thus able to bypass the guided tour and the official interpreter. The result has been growing alarm in Peking over the depth of personal contact, which could lead to what the Chinese press decries as "spiritual opium," meaning corruption from abroad. Two years ago, officials were stunned and alarmed by the case of Steven Mosher, 34, a Stanford University graduate student who lived for nine months in a commune in Guangdong province. Mosher collected extensive interviews, photographed thousands...