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...high-tech plastic bumper covers and grilles for Chrysler, GM and Honda at a plant near the company's headquarters in Aurora, Ont., about 20 miles north of Toronto. "Each year we get more and more into what the customers are asking for," he yells over the roar and hiss of 15 molding machines. "In the old days, a customer would have one supplier that shipped grilles from Idaho, and the fog lamps came from somewhere else. Now the whole piece is made here...
East-coast intellectuals, like Appalachian mountain folk, are famous for their feuds. When Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet spy in the 1950s, the political elite chose sides, and some still aren't speaking. After novelist Mary McCarthy called playwright Lillian Hellman a liar--or, more precisely, said, "Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'"--the literary crowd split in two. They're at it again. That rumbling out of Washington is the sound of a new chattering class feud--and unaligned wordsmiths had better head for the hills...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman YASSER ARAFAT acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister HANAN MIKHAIL-ASHRAWI, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat's failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...thing to boo and hiss, as many legislators did, when Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat acceded to demands by reform-minded members of the Legislative Council and presented a so-called new Cabinet last week. But Minister Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, prominent spokeswoman for the Palestinian cause, made her protest sting by loudly quitting the Cabinet. Disgusted at Arafat?s failure to remove three of her colleagues accused of corruption last year, Mikhail-Ashrawi, a former literature professor, was also offended that Arafat did not consult her before switching her from the Ministry of Higher Education to the Tourism portfolio...
...directed by Joe Calarco. The setting is a regimented boys' school, where four students march onstage, recite their Latin and math lessons and then embark on an impromptu performance of Romeo and Juliet. They play all the parts, provide the sound effects (pounding fists, stomping feet, a slow hiss when a character dies), and manipulate the show's single prop: a red silken fabric that serves as, among other things, a shawl, a sword and a vial of poison...