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...soon as the curtain lifts halfway to reveal three sequined bellies gyrating to an Arabian beat, we know we're not in Kansas anymore...
...Halfway around the world from Cancun, a similar flurry of nervous consultation took place. In the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, Hussain Lwasani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's director for African and Arab affairs, met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. Lwasani's mission, said a Saudi spokesman, was "related to the current oilmarket situation." A day later, Major Khoualdy Humaidi, a member of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's governing Revolutionary Command Council, showed up for a session with Saudi King Fahd. Later, it was announced that the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would hold...
Already the biggest U.S. prison management company, C.C.A. runs three federal detention centers for illegal aliens in Texas and three facilities in Tennessee, including two juvenile facilities in Memphis, a workhouse near Chattanooga and a halfway house in Fayetteville. This week Tennessee legislators are expected to consider a proposal from C.C.A. to take over another work camp and to build and manage a new 512-bed medium-to-maximum- security prison...
...individuals; for, accurately speaking, they are not a group at all, but a collection of lonely people. What they need is not money, but attention: training, perhaps treatment, and opportunity to work and be integrated into society as much as possible. Kalar envisages a nationwide system of small halfway houses where the mentally ill and homeless could help one another get back on their feet. It is a helpful suggestion, but no one answer will solve the problem. In all likelihood the problem will never be solved. But so long as we encourage the homeless to wander from shelter...
...halfway to where we want to be," says Hearst. John Markoff does offer insightful reporting on Silicon Valley, while Phil Bronstein has provided first-rate coverage from the Philippines. But the paper maintains only two bureaus outside the city, in Sacramento and Washington, and its overall coverage is a bit skimpy considering the large editorial staff (269 reporters and editors). Hearst does not lack experience, having worked as an Examiner reporter and editor for three years before serving as assistant managing editor at the company's Los Angeles Herald Examiner from 1978 to 1984. Nonetheless, he is criticized by staffers...