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Your article on the U.S. beer brawl had several analogies with events in Britain over the past decade. In the early 1970s the big companies monopolized the United Kingdom markets by buying up many smaller breweries, with the result that many beers became bland, sterile and uninteresting. This led to an enormous consumer backlash. Subsequently, the surviving small breweries, which used traditional techniques for producing flavorful rather than pasteurized beer, have flourished...
Watching the withdrawal from Beirut's waterfront, Israel's tough Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, architect of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, declared that the P.L.O. had suffered "a crushing defeat" and had lost "its kingdom of terrorism," and so it had. But in the streets of West Beirut, the P.L.O. guerrillas were full of bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard...
...deft dealer, but his sleight of hand tips the hand of Director James Lapine. This will be an evening of chipper invention, but one that will skirt the deeper, darker depths of this forest, where magic turns to mystery and the tumbling appearance of the fairy kingdom's wayward spirits becomes a metaphor for the wayward heart's enigmatic leapings...
Shakespeare's Richard III offered his kingdom for a horse, but nowadays he probably would have to up his bid. At the famed Keeneland Association yearling sales in Lexington, Ky., last week, British Betting Tycoon Robert Sangster, 46, who has parlayed a shrewd interest in horseflesh and an oddsmaker's understanding of the business into a stable of 400 Thoroughbreds, paid $4.25 million for a 15-month-old colt. It was the highest price ever for a race horse at auction. Sangster outbid Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid el Maktoum, Dubai's Defense Minister and the heir apparent...
...should enable it to avoid a similar disaster. Unlike Iran, the population is culturally homogeneous, and shares more closely its own brand of Islamic religion. Moreover, the royal family is closely allied with the religious leaders and popular as well with the rest of the people. Nor is the kingdom beset by a teeming urban center with an underclass ripe for revolt. Observes one U.S. expert: "You really don't have the same economic strains in the modernization process. The government has kept inflation to around 8% a year, and there simply isn't any unemployment." Even...