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...though there's something to be said about learning about other cultures--on what days students at foreign colleges get served chickwiches, and so forth--being away from the good `ol U.S. of A. for any period of time longer than two weeks gets very tiresome very quickly...
...interpret the responsibility). Who wants financial advice from a flounder? I go to the playground after the market closes, and the other kids make fun of me. "How's your Nike?" they laugh, knowing I shorted it at 70, betting it would go down. (It's 89.) "How's ol' Crappy?" they squeal, referring by nickname to a small auto- parts rebuilder I started buying at 7. I bought more last week...
...tune that Ol' Blue Eyes immortalized could have served equally well as the theme song for the annual economic summit of the world's richest democracies held in Houston last week. Just as the Soviet Union's power to ride herd on its neighbors has been crippled by its domestic turmoil, America's ability to corral its allies has been hampered by two factors: the burgeoning economic clout of Japan and West Germany and the belief that the communist threat to Western security has receded. Today the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Canada and Italy -- known in diplomatese...
Romano himself agrees after a manner. "I was good ol' affable Anthony. I myself had a lot to do with [the problem]...but you have to stand up to defend your position without alienating people. Obviously I wasn't able to do that...
After the Vietnamese army ousted the Pol Pot regime in January 1979, Seng gathered up his family. He joined with the family of a recently widowed woman named Ol Sam, whom he would later marry, plus the orphaned daughter of a mutual friend, and set out to escape from Cambodia. Largely on foot, with occasional hitched rides on oxcarts and trucks, the group made its way to the northwest, a distance of some 250 miles. Along the way, Seng's wife died. Finally, in May -- more than four years after he got his first close look at a Khmer Rouge...