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...once cynical, unhappy, exultant and uplifting -- a bundle of contradictions faithful to the novel by the late Manuel Puig. He consulted on the script and suggested a key plot change from the film: when the mismatched cell mates briefly turn romantic, the bond is not love but a quid pro quo transaction, each using the other to serve a purpose the other has not embraced. Only after the deal goes ruinously wrong do they discover true devotion...
...revise the way it proposed to collect a new energy tax to favor U.S. oil refiners over foreign competitors. He vowed to consider half a dozen other changes urged by oil and gas interests and encouraged his guests to fax him any further ideas that occurred to them. The quid pro quo: "We want your support for our economic program." Shell, at least, got the message quickly. A company statement endorsed "President Clinton in his effort to cut spending, reduce the deficit and encourage economic growth . . . We are prepared to continue working to fashion energy-tax policies that achieve...
...which rape was treated as a disciplinary problem, and armies in which it was institutionalized. In most European armies in the first half of the 17th century, rapes by unpaid soldiers occurred in large numbers in front of officers and were not stopped because they were part of the quid pro quo of what you got for being a soldier...
...good news is that sexual harassment is finally a problem with a recognizable name, the bad news is that many women are still stymied in their efforts to stop workplace offenses. Blatant quid pro quo cases, where promotions and raises are directly linked to sexual favors, are the easiest to litigate, but they are a relative rarity. As men and women both learned in the endless press coverage and office memos that followed the hearings, the most common form of harassment falls under the "hostile environment" umbrella, and may involve anything from lewd jokes to unwelcome physical contact. Many bosses...
...network, Felix Rodriguez, was sent to Central America with the backing of Bush's office. Documents released in the trial of Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, moreover, show that the U.S. government offered Honduras increased economic, military and covert support in exchange for Honduran military aid to the contras. This quid-pro-quo arrangement, whose existence Bush explicitly denied in 1989, violated the congressional ban on indirect U.S. military assistance to the rebels. Documents obtained by TIME show that Reagan approved the deal and that a copy of the memo authorizing it went to Bush. Bush "concurred" in the stepped...