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Governments have announced plans to sell stakes in a dozen national airlines, including AeroPeru, Lot Polish Airlines and Viasa in Venezuela. An estimated 30 telephone companies, including stakes in those of Uruguay and Venezuela, are up for sale or will become available in the next few years. Some $50 billion worth of properties are on the block in just Latin America and Eastern Europe, and businesses worth hundreds of billions of dollars will be sold worldwide over the next several years. The offerings include huge ! industrial conglomerates and small retail chains, banks and restaurants, oil fields, utilities and hotels...
Furst's perfect-pitch re-creation begins with a fatally flawed protagonist: Andre Szara, 40, Pravda reporter in Europe and occasional Soviet spy, whose life goals have been reduced to a desire to outlast Stalin's purges. As the novel opens in 1937, Szara, a Russified Polish Jew, is caught in the midst of a blood feud in the Soviet secret services between his NKVD friends, mostly Jewish intellectuals, and Stalin's Georgian thugs. The fear that dominates Szara's nomadic life is palpable: a typically chilling passage is about his return to Russia aboard a Soviet freighter with...
...their last concert of the year, the Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones fed a small but a capella-hungry Sanders Theater crowd a well-balanced meal of harmony and humor. Showcasing strong voices and varied musical styles, the Veritones performed with energy and polish, and the a capella groupies in the audience shrieked and stomped their satisfaction...
...Callbacks. Performing three original songs, a popular cover and an encore of "Down by the River-side," Onyx wowed the audience with exciting vocals and a relaxed sense of humor. The Middlebury Dissipated 8, a nine-man group which also performed before the Callbacks, sang their tunes with polish and wry humor, except for a dreadful version of Smoky Robinson's "Tracks of my Tears...
...Central Command with the idea that he might well have to fight." Five days before Saddam Hussein launched his invasion, Schwarzkopf and his staff happened to be running an exercise predicated on the possibility that Iraq might overrun Kuwait. All that was necessary after that was for Schwarzkopf to polish his plan. It became the model for Operation Desert Shield...