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Still, even with the strengthened returns, theroad ahead is not likely to be entirely smooth orwithout peril for the University's money. AsHarvard officials are quick to point out, thereare no guarantees that foreign stocks willcontinue to do well...
Georgia was certainly the jaws of peril. State Department officials regard the current tensions there as "chaotic to the point of anarchy." Eduard Shevardnadze's government is threatened not only by a war in the breakaway region of Abkhazia but also by violence from supporters of ousted communist President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Says a Western diplomat: "Georgia is a country full of people with guns who shoot them all the time...
...lacks Woo's usual subtlety in dramatizing the brutal brotherhood of cops and creeps. It has a promising premise, a Most Dangerous Game gloss about a gang that arranges manhunts for macho millionaires, but nobody has much of a character. The loner hero (Van Damme), the woman in peril (Yancy Butler), the CEO-type villain (Lance Henriksen) and his soulless henchman (Arnold Vosloo) -- the roles are little more than job descriptions. Martial artist Van Damme gets to punch out a rattlesnake and follow this moral code: I shoot you three times, then I kick-box your ugly face...
...that was good about the old Kimble has been lost. He can still spare risky time to help others, like a child being ignored, at peril to his life, in an emergency room. He still has the recklessness that comes to people who have nothing left to lose (the most spectacular of his hair-breadth escapes is a dive into the torrent coursing over a dam hundreds of feet high). And he still has his own pursuit to pursue -- of the one-armed man whom he alone knows is his wife's actual murderer...
...Israel was pounding the country with a blunt and heavy instrument, reducing much of southern Lebanon to rubble. The onslaught was so fierce and went on so long that the U.S. and key Arab states wondered uneasily if the resumption of Middle East peace talks might yet be in peril...