Word: lande
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...quiet land. Deep, delicately carved canyons twist through golden walls of sandstone. A tortoise hides in the shade of a Joshua tree. Listen closely and you can hear the sound of a stream trickling through the rocks, over polished pebbles, and into a pool of crystal water...
MCDOUGAL FOUND HIS NEW FUNDING IN JANUARY 1982 by buying a controlling interest in the Woodruff County Savings & Loan Association in Augusta, Arkansas. Since new laws allowed S&Ls extraordinary latitude in making loans with their federally insured deposits, McDougal began buying more land and building developments. He also renamed the S&L, once again turning to a favorite President for inspiration: Woodruff became Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan. He opened a flagship office in Little Rock and began seeing the Clintons socially again (Bill had won back the Governor's job in 1982). Thus McDougal happily agreed to hold...
Despite this, Richard Massey, an associate at the Rose firm who specialized in securities law, and a corporate partner at Rose, David Knight, hoping to land Madison business, had lunch in the spring of 1985 with John Latham, whom McDougal had hired as Madison Guaranty's chief executive officer. But the lunch proved fruitless: Latham said Madison already had outside counsel and didn't plan to hire others...
...what if this offensive against Hamas by Arafat ultimately proves as ineffectual and half-hearted as those of the past? Despite Peres' threat, Israeli officers are loath to blatantly re-enter land under P.A. control and risk a broad confrontation between Israel's forces and Arafat's. The military would favor covert operations in Arafat's jurisdiction, like the assassination in January of Hamas' master bombmaker, Yehia Ayyash, in the Gaza Strip. Says the Defense Ministry official: "If we have intelligence about someone in Arafat's zones, we'll give the information to the P.A. And if they...
DIED. MARGUERITE DURAS, 81, writer; in Paris. The author of 35 novels, she frequently used the land of her birth, colonial French Indochina, for her spare but expressive portraits of the redemptive and destructive power of love. Her most popular was 1984's L'Amant (The Lover), an autobiographical novel that depicts the social and sexual tensions between a poor French 15-year-old and her wealthy Asian lover. In film her biggest success was the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour...