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...that he's black, which means just one thing to his new neighbors: he must be a burglar. So as the local sheriff (Dabney Coleman) besieges Andrew's house, AMOS & ANDREW form an alliance, at first mutually suspicious, then mutually instructive, aimed at getting them both back to the mainland unscathed. Writer-director E. Max Frye doesn't quite know how to end his comedy, but his actors know how to play it. The result is energetic, affable, occasionally shrewd social satire...
...family members and interpreters, will follow them to a native-run facility in Alberta. The Innu band council will also seek a treatment center within the village itself. Beyond that, the people of Davis Inlet will take up a new government offer for eventual relocation on the Labrador mainland, probably at Sango, about 11 miles to the west, where there is an ample water supply and the possibility of jobs at a $23 million hydroelectric project. "There's really nothing worth saving here," says Chief Rich. "At least we would have a fresh start, at least at a place chosen...
...modern society. Francis Fukuyama, the author of The End of History?, says the "soft authoritarianism" of countries like Singapore "is the one potential competitor to Western liberal democracy, and its strength and legitimacy is growing daily." Tiny anticommunist Singapore (pop. 3.1 million) has even found an ardent fan in mainland China (pop. 1.16 billion), where officials are studying the city-state for ideas on how they can throw off Marxist economics but keep dictatorial political control...
...seriously endangered. And they're all very beautiful -- the biggest flying creatures on earth -- and they seem to me a wonderful metaphor. They require a lot of space, a lot of wilderness and clean water." + They are symbols of longevity. "And about half the population's on the mainland; the other half's in Japan." He smiles. "They've probably been separated for millions of years. I like that. It humbles...
...British Governor. On his first visit to China, Patten was snubbed by the top brass and told curtly that his ideas for further democratizing Hong Kong before the 1997 Chinese takeover were unacceptable. Beijing threatened to annul such political reforms, even if Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms are mainland gospel today. Chinese reverence for the wisdom of age was clear when the 14th Communist Party Congress's 2,000 delegates cheered the ultimate appearance of Deng, 88. Tottering into the Great Hall of the People, he congratulated the congress on its "great success" in endorsing bolder economic liberalization -- an agenda...