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Hamlets all along the Mississippi are searching for a picturesque and salable past. But Nauvoo is the uneasy recipient of a double bounty: a town with two histories and two identities. In the mid-19th century the Mormons built a gleaming capital here, only to be bloodily expelled within seven...
With hindsight, the head of Louisiana's prisons questions whether the state gave Wackenhut Corrections enough money to run a professional operation. Louisiana paid the company a per diem of $70 for each juvenile at the 276-bed facility. "We paid them approximately the same per diem that our own...
It's nicely played too--particularly by Willis, who neatly nails both his character's funny nastiness and his unsentimental reform once he begins to recover from his emotional amnesia. One doesn't want to oversell The Kid. It's a modest little fantasy. But it's also well made...
But the leitmotif of Assad's presidency, which began soon after Syria's humiliating defeat in the 1967 with Israel, has been the battle to recover the strategic Golan Heights. Having failed to achieve that goal through the war of 1973 or the proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations...
The negative psychology--the fear--is further evidenced by how investors react to news. Before the spring sell-off, even bad news was a reason to buy because such an announcement cleared away any reason to sell. Now stocks like Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are falling even on exceptional earnings...