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...thrashed out at the end of last year, which set elections for this April, observers expect conflict to be inevitable. "What more must we give the Maoists?" asks R.S. Mahat, Nepal's Finance Minister and a Congress Party member. "Their strategy is simply to create crisis. They are not honest...
...fools their silks, and knaves their wine - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, an a' that. Their tinsel show, an a' that, The honest man, tho e'er sae poor, Is king o men for a' that...
...Rocky Balboa. Stallone?pretty much hitless since the 1980s, when he was one of the biggest box-office draws in the world?wrote, directed and starred in the sixth installment of that dead franchise and emerged with a critical and commercial success. Rocky Balboa was a touching, honest, personal look at longing for past glory; Stallone held off from pandering so much that it didn't even have a training montage. But Rambo?the fourth one, and the first in 20 years?is a movie without apology for the foreign markets that still adore him: Rambo quickly gets talked into...
Your stories typically feature at least one slimy attorney. Are most lawyers like that? -Grace Hall, Rosedale, N.Y.Not a lot. But there are enough of the slimy ones to juice up the profession and create a lot of good stories. Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers-the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff...
Still, the fact that there was as much applause as booing from the crowd at the Entrepreneurship and Management Academy suggests that there are many in Poland ready for a more honest accounting of the past...