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...taking a side trip outside London when he came to England for the economic summit. Carter mentioned Wales, the birthplace of his favorite poet Dylan Thomas. But Callaghan, concerned about possible problems with Welsh nationalists, suggested Newcastle-upon-Tyne (pop. 295,700), a grimy coal town that is rife with unemployment as it attempts to shift to cleaner industries. Besides being the home of Washington's ancestors, Newcastle is a stronghold of the Labor Party (although the Conservatives did surprisingly well there in last week's elections...
What a brilliant subject for a Fellini movie-and what a disappointing treatment of it. Seducer, charlatan, scribbler, dabbler in black magic, Giacomo Casanova was that most magnetic of figures, the legend with nothing lofty about him. Born in a glittering Venice that was rife with disease and intrigue, he was equally at home in scenes of Watteau-like elegance or Hogarthian stench. He roamed the capitals of Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived...
...insinuation that they are incapable of responding to all types of writing, take a minute to check their remarkable and diverse credentials--and they do not judge a writer against another writer, but rather against the writer's own theories, intentions and standards. Just as the publishing community is rife with anecdotes about books that were repeatedly rejected going on to become classics, so too the writing field spurns many of its future greats. The committee's academic credentials minimize the subjectivity involved in selection, but selection must occur, and it is a subjective act. How many of us have...
...Governments that routinely use torture as an instrument of state policy generally deny that such practices exist. At the same time, the difficulty of making unhindered investigations of conditions in closed societies and police states virtually guarantees that many abuses remain uncovered. Torture, moreover, is a most murky area, rife with exaggerated claims, politically motivated propaganda and just plain misinformation. Nonetheless, independent human rights organizations, reporters and others have managed through interviews and on-the-scene investigations to compile a credible and apparently accurate record of torture in many parts of the world...
Food and drink peddlers, promoters and itinerant entertainers surrounded athletes and spectators at the foot of Mount Olympus. (There was also competition for the contract to supply the games with olive oil, with which the athletes rubbed themselves before competing.) Professionalism, poor sportsmanship and sheer ferocity were rife. Some of the competitions were more violent than those in the games today. The most popular event was the pankration, a combination of wrestling, judo and boxing in which contestants punched, slapped, kicked and-if they could get away with it-even bit or gouged each other until one or the other...