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Before its 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands, Argentina shipped corned beef, lumber and other goods worth more than $133 million annually to the United Kingdom. But since the war, a British embargo on Argentine imports has outlawed trade between the nations. Last week, as he embarked on a three-day visit to Brazil, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the House of Commons that Britain had decided unilaterally to lift the trade embargo. Howe, whose announcement coincided with the anniversary of last year's unsuccessful efforts to renew relations with Argentina, urged the government of President Raúl...
...Lions are the classic example of a good-pitch, no-hit team. They’ll lose a lot of games 2-1, but then on days when they bring the lumber, they’ll probably beat...
...musicals and sang lead in a cover band, the Dutch Masters. ("I thought the name would look good painted on a drumhead," he explains.) Like several of his brothers, he caddied at the Indian Hill Golf Club to help pay his Catholic-school tuition. (Murray's father Edward, a lumber salesman, died in 1967 at age 46 of complications from diabetes; his mother Lucille, a mailroom clerk, died in 1988 of cancer.) It was while caddying that Murray developed his ferocious sense of justice. "As a poor kid carrying a rich guy's bag," says Murray, "you're not supposed...
Perhaps Hollywood can't be trusted to make Hollywood-style movies anymore. When ancient-history films lumber like the elephantine Alexander, or when technological gewgaws abduct the magic of fantasy in films like The Polar Express, where can a curious cinephile go? China. That's where director Zhang Yimou blended history book with graphic novel in the worldwide hit Hero, and whence he returns with the even zippier, more cunning kung fu caper, House of Flying Daggers...
...save him, and then the two other boys rushed to help. All four were electrocuted. "I've lost all the males in my family," sobbed daughter Lea, 19, who now lives in a temporary shelter in the town of Rodriguez. Arroyo called for a crackdown on the highly lucrative lumber trade that has stripped the mountains. Millions of hectares of forest have disappeared in recent decades-and the Philippines is reminded every year how hazardous it is to fool around with Mother Nature...