Word: latters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are two newspapers in the United States worth writing for professionally--The New York Times and the Washington Post. Volunteer Slavery, by Jill Nelson is primarily the author's account of her tenure at the latter. It is also a story about Washington and the heavy price it exacts from those who heed its call...
...site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently, at least -- has been very cooperative in helping with POW/MIAs. This may make a difference as Washington decides in September whether to lift its two-decade-old trade embargo against Vietnam...
...rockers have a touch of the devil in them. Some bare their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...
Lloyd Webber's goal in recent years has been to bridge the gap between the musical and the opera, reclaiming the latter as a popular rather than elite form. An operatic reading does no disservice to Billy Wilder's film noir, which has been preserved more than adapted. The climax, when the fallen star Norma Desmond shoots her lover and he tumbles into a swimming pool, has opera's larger-than-life emotion. So does the denouement, as she lapses into madness and announces, to a Cecil B. DeMille visible only to her, that she is ready for her close...
...university has a 12% stake in Marriott preferred shares, worth about $35 million. (Incidentally, dividends on this investment to date cannot even pay Meyer's salary.) In an upcoming split, announced last fall, Marriott will become two different companies, Marriott International and Host Marriott of which the latter will absorb most of the company's $2.9 billion debt. The terms of this split, made clear in March, will stop dividends on the preferred stock and allow conversion only to the vastly weakened Host Marriott. Read: big losses for this year's endowment performance...