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...Columbia goalie had set himself to catch the ball himself, and could not react in time as the Valtysson-headed ball skidded past him and across crease...
States, like people, can go mad. How is the world to react? First, be sure never to underestimate the crazy state. Second, resist...
...react to the congressional hearings? Is there any truth to reports of a melancholy Reagan worrying and brooding about each hour's revelations? "Actually," says the President, "I didn't change my pattern or my schedule much at all. I might have a few minutes and step into the next room and turn on the TV just to see who was on and so forth. I didn't have to depend on the press. Our legal counsel kept me informed with a summary...
...madness A Dark-Adapted Eye. She may be a contender for another under her own name for Heartstones (Harper & Row; 80 pages; $10.95), a medieval enameled miniature of a novella. Set in the environs of a cathedral, it etches the opposite but equally crazy ways in which two sisters react to their mother's death and their father's potential remarriage. An explicit tribute to the quasi-supernatural stories of Henry James and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Heartstones also makes full use of Rendell's own trademark chill, a slide-under-the-microsc ope dispassion that permits all sorts...
...billion, of which $286 billion is owed to private banks -- the unpaid IOUs piled up before the Paris Club, while substantial, seem of only secondary importance. But before they begin their own painstaking sessions with debtors, the world's major banks often wait to see how club governments will react to requests for postponed loan repayment. The club also has an important effect on the cash flow of needy governments. Unlike banks, which postpone only the repayment of principal on loans, the Paris Club will postpone the payback of both principal and interest, thus freeing up additional credit...