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...last week, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin toasted a rotund 72-year-old at the table and offered a tribute: ''Mr. Eisenberg opened the doors to China for Israel.'' It was a rare moment in the public spotlight for Israeli tycoon Shoul Eisenberg, but senior officials at the dinner knew exactly what Rabin meant. Modern weaponry is at the heart of the Jerusalem-Beijing relationship, and Eisenberg has been selling Israeli defense technology to the Chinese for more than a decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear in the pages of popular thrillers...
...life. Vedder was born in Chicago, the oldest of four children. The first records he can remember enjoying were Motown records, songs by the young Michael Jackson. Neil Young came next, and the Who's album Quadrophenia. He identified with its portrayal of adolescent trauma. Vedder never knew his real father. He was raised by a man who he thought was his father and with whom he often clashed. By the time his mother told him the truth, Vedder had migrated to San Diego, and his biological father had died of multiple sclerosis...
...Cedras and Francois would remain in their posts, responsible only to an ''independent'' Prime Minister they had every intention of controlling. Aristide, it was clear, would be a political cripple. The letter was never sent. On Friday afternoon, when U.S. envoy Lawrence Pezzullo met with Cedras, the Haitians knew the fleet was on its way. According to American and Haitian sources, Pezzullo wasn't about to bargain. ''You said you were someone who could deliver,'' Pezzullo told Cedras. ''You said your word was good. Now you look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done...
...investigation following charges that the GNP estimates, which sharply affected the performance of U.S. financial markets on the day of their release, were leaked to Wall Street traders twice last year. The results of the inquest were severely disquieting. At least 60 bureau workers--well beyond the authorized limit--knew the secret numbers, and investigators could not tell who might have slipped information to outsiders. The three dismissed for breach of trust, on the other hand, were hardly big- time offenders: one of them made only about $300 in the bond market...
...someone's most candid truths about themselves.'' There were no other dancers in Ferri's comfortable Milanese family, but at seven she had determined to be a ballerina. ''Because of this,'' she says, ''I always felt more mature than my little friends. A small part of me knew what I was about.'' At 15 she went to London's Royal Ballet School and spent her spare time wisely, watching Anthony Dowell rehearse. She was picked for the company at 17, but chafed at being in the corps. ''I never felt part of the whole, I hated to be in line...