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LAST SPRING, activists virulently protested Harvard's holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The protesters insisted that it was wrong for Harvard to lend support to a far-away regime that mandated the legal separation of its Black citizens from its white ones...
...Porter really were to lend approval, it would be chiefly for Patti LuPone. As Nightclub Belter Reno Sweeney, she rivals the role's originator, Ethel Merman, in volume and clarity of voice, and far outdoes her in intelligence and heart. CoStar Howard McGillin has shirt-ad looks, puppyish charm and a lilting tenor. Other delights: Tony Walton's Art Deco ocean-liner set, Paul Gallo's seascape lighting and Michael Smuin's crisp choreography. The supporting cast is mostly ordinary, and Kathleen Mahony-Bennett's oomphless ingenue is not even that. The book, by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton...
...million in obligations to two syndicates representing 140 banks. Other countries in the past have halted payment of debt but struck deals with foreign lenders, earning more favorable terms and fresh credits. In North Korea's case, says one European banker, "nobody in their right minds will now lend money to them...
...years ago, had eight children, and they raised them on his woodcutter's wages. Back in the days when he began, he says, "There weren't nobody lower than a woodcutter," but today his skills are more respected, and he tells proudly that the bank was willing to lend him money to buy his last truck. "I got a boy, though, he's 23, and he won't cut wood. Says it's too hard." Ray paused, watched the cigarette smoke rise in the still air. "Course he ain't no bigger than a bar of soap neither...
...novel does not lend itself so readily to sequels: the plots are more apocalyptic, and even if the characters survive, their undercover effectiveness usually does not. But just as John le Carre managed to bring back dumpy, deceptively bland George Smiley, so Brian Freemantle has managed to write six captivating novels featuring scruffy, wily Charlie Muffin. He is a brilliant survivor who in his time has outwitted the Soviets, the Chinese, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and his own British service, which early in his debut novel set him up to be killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam...