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...theater these days, Lonely Street originated at a regional company, Atlanta's Alliance Theater, where Deer is literary manager. Director Stephens transferred with the show, as did Set Designer Mark Morton and half the cast. The production is impeccable, and in a season with a dearth of worthy British imports, the main stem must be grateful for an American "import" of this caliber...
...Instead, resource markets are glutted and stockpiles are still growing despite the lowest prices for commodities since the Great Depression. Food supplies have likewise increased, in large part because of heavy subsidies for production and dramatic improvements in agricultural techniques. Only the Soviet Union among major nations needs to import more and more food, but even so, Drucker notes, world agricultural surpluses are so large that prices may stagnate indefinitely...
...Harvard does not realize that what is crucial about American companies in South Africa is not so much how they treat their employees, but what they produce, import, and invest in. What is crucial is the moral and political support they lend to that fossil of history, the most racist country on the face of this earth, South Africa." (Text of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's letter to President Bok, March...
Evidence of the brain ban emerged early this year. A French importer complained in the Paris daily Liberation that a routine request to import the delicacy (called cervelles and served braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...
Because juvenile execution evokes such strongly conflicting values, it greatly intensifies the moral import of the debate over capital punishment. To borrow the cliche, it "raises the stakes...