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Prosecutors in the U.S. and Italy acknowledge the Mafia's continuing influence but are convinced they can reduce it. Italian authorities insist that last week's roundup, which was organized secretly and carried out with military precision, will be followed by more arrests as they question those in...
For Benton, 51, who wrote and directed Kramer vs. Kramer among other films, evocation is not quite autobiography. The events in Edna Spalding's life, for instance, may be based on what happened to his great-grandmother, but her character contains aspects of his mother, his wife and, as...
It is used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the...
Last week's announcement read like the obituary of any failed company. Because of falling demand, lagging technology and tough competition, IGV, a business-machine and precision-tool manufacturer, was going bankrupt. The difference was that IGV is based in Budapest, and the liquidation was ordered by Hungary'...
To be sure, there are exceptions. Switzerland is a world leader in pharmaceuticals and electric-generation equipment, Britain in precision instruments, West Germany in engine technology and machine tools, and Sweden in robots. In many fields of scientific achievement, Western Europe remains close to the U.S. and ahead of Japan...