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...outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...price for this series of distractions will be paid on Capitol Hill, where the unresolved legislative agenda is a minefield of potential trouble. Reagan has threatened to veto appropriations bills emerging from Congress that exceed the spending limitations agreed upon in the anemic deficit- reduction package passed by Congress in early August. As many as 13 spending bills, including costly farmsubsidy legislation, could reach Reagan's desk. If the legislators were to override his veto on any of them, it would be the first such defeat of his presidency, further eroding his influence. Still, he seems ready to take...
Yeutter will need all of his practical skills, and maybe a miracle or two as well, when he enters the minefield of U.S.-Japanese trade relations. In the four decades since World War II, Japan has waged one of the most successful campaigns in the history of commerce, making its consumer products household names throughout the developed world. But American and European salesmen of everything from meat to microchips have complained for years that Japanese markets have been closed to them, even when they offered products superior to those produced locally. That was an annoyance when Japan was struggling...
Arquette's instincts for this kind of comedy are superb. She is a beautiful dreamer walking through a minefield, at once vulnerable and invincible--and just possibly the funny lady the world has been wanting to cuddle up with for years. In Seidelman she has an admirably laconic director who trusts her material, her impeccably cast actors and herself. In other words she does not lead the laughter at her own jokes. How nice it is to go to a farcically fizzing movie that bursts with youthful high spirits yet still treats you like a functioning adult. By Richard Schickel
...victims of torture, the world is a minefield of horrifying memories. One woman panics whenever she sees a dark Ford like the one that hauled her away to severe beatings and a gang rape. Some survivors have trouble entering bathrooms, because the tile, lighting and smell summon up images of their torture chambers. "How do you cure torture?" asks Genevieve Cowgill, 44, director of the Canadian Center for Investigation and Prevention of Torture. "It's not something you can simply talk victims...