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...ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with the Communists, but "the gods," malevolent figures who use code names like Odin, Balder and Thor, have other plans. Whether agents of decency can triumph over the pantheon is, of course, never in question. The Sheldon brand name guarantees a predictable mix of global gore and paperback psychopathology. Goodness has nothing to do with...
...Boesky threatened to close with a bang rather than a whimper. Process servers working for both the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan had delivered subpoenas to at least a dozen important figures in the stock-trading pantheon. The subpoenas did not imply guilt on the part of those who got them, but requested information about any dealings and relationships with Boesky. Among those said to have received the documents...
...source of growing guerrilla ferment and, paradoxically, a possible key to an eventual solution of the South African dilemma. In Nelson Mandela and four other A.N.C. leaders who have spent the past 24 years in prison for their campaign against apartheid, the organization holds claim to a virtual pantheon of martyrs whose resistance appears more heroic by the day to a vast majority of blacks. In the face of severe criticism by the government, which regards the A.N.C. as "part of the international terrorist network," a number of white South African businessmen, churchmen and other prominent opinion makers have recently...
...Pantheon; 256 pages...
...Pantheon; 183 pages...