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...winds called hamis are blowing now, and with them Baghdad seems enveloped in a surreal haze: diplomats drop out of the sky to plead with Saddam Hussein for a solution before it is too late; hostages lounge by the pool and pin their hopes on each new arrival; ministers hint of divisions within the government; reporters interview the most recent terrorists to take up residence here; the Muzak in the state-owned hotel plays Hava Nagila...
...year-old spectacled professor is quickto explain his plan with an air of confidence anda slight hint of self-defense. He speaks of hisown solutions with fervor and an enthusiasm seldomassociated with economists...
Visiting the area last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen told Johnson and Taylor that the U.S. would sever relations with Liberia unless a truce was declared. Taylor, head of the 10,000-member National Patriotic Front of Liberia, took the hint and announced a unilateral cease- fire. But the prospect for fruitful negotiations remains dim: Taylor declared that his "government" was the only legitimate one and that he would "fight any attempt to install another one." The truce should at least afford some breathing space for the five-nation West African contingent, which has suffered from...
...these women, with Codi's help, who set out to save the town from the mining company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may be allowed. Anyone who thinks a giant mining concern is any match for the Grace Stitch and Bitch Club has a lot to learn about eco-feminist novels...
...exploration of a writer of anonymous suicide threats, and reveals how much a successful person may depend on the reaction of others to provide a missing sense of self-worth. At the center of Hill's plot is an outdoor-extravaganza staging of a medieval "mystery" play -- a cunning hint from Hill that his work, like its Middle Ages namesake, is more concerned with moral and metaphysical conundrums than with clues to some mundane crime. The final scenes, set aptly in a Gothic cathedral, convincingly merge a police procedural with a plunge into a soul in torment...