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...patriotism is the last refuge for scoundrels, what do you call a Cabinet minister who flips off the national anthem? Certainly not a statesman - nor a reliable political partner. By waving his middle finger Sunday while barking out a verse of Il Canto degli Italiani, Italy's Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi raised real questions about the long-term viability of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right ruling coalition...
...Nigeria is the Department of State's ''Tips for Business Travelers to Nigeria.'' This brochure can be obtained by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Overseas Citizens Services, Room 4800, Department of State, Washington, D.C. 20520-4818. Despite the high level of corruption, Nigeria remains our largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, and there are many legitimate opportunities for the savvy international business traveler who goes in with eyes open to the many pitfalls along the way. Sally K. Miller, Director Office of Africa Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Washington
...telephone companies were thought to be rivals in the race to build the information highway. ''We discovered that there was no debate,'' Smith says. ''We really saw the future in the same way. And we both came to the conclusion about a year ago that we needed strategic partners.'' Malone and Smith opened serious merger talks last summer after Smith decided that TCI would make an ideal match for his company. ''We kept it to a small number of people,'' Smith says, ''although we kept Salomon Brothers as a backup. We did all the negotiations ourselves. No outsiders.'' Maintaining...
...make a single mistake with this girl.'' ALESSANDRA FERRI. No one would ever picture Ferri as a drowsing Oriental beauty. She seems made for motion: wraith-thin, bonelessly supple, with enormous dark eyes that radiate intensity. It is easy to see why Mikhail Baryshnikov's search for a partner stopped with her. ''Her special power comes from her ability to concentrate with such intensity that the audience can directly share her imagination,'' says Baryshnikov. ''It is like listening in on someone's most candid truths about themselves.'' There were no other dancers in Ferri's comfortable Milanese family...
...Lena had never had a boyfriend. Rather disastrously, she married one of the first men she dated: Louis Jones, a minister's son. Led by her mother, little Gail became part of a new and vibrant phase of black bourgeois life, in which respectability became the dancing partner of chic. As Lena moved up in the world, displaying her flawless cheekbones and elegant diction at bistros from New York's Cafe Society to Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they...