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T.F.A.P. was the industrial world's largest collective effort to help address the developing world's environmental problems. It was launched with assurances that the program would not repeat the mistakes of past development efforts, which included duplication of effort; rip-offs by contractors, consultants and corrupt officials; and a tendency to promote the donor's priorities at the expense of the Third World's. Unfortunately, the forestry plan ended up repeating many of these failings...
...that is to say too quick to accommodate and compromise in his past life. He has failed to realize his highest potential or, for that matter, all the happiness he was entitled to. He clearly needs more practice in living. To make matters worse, his defense attorney (the excellent Rip Torn) is distracted and dispassionate -- he obviously thinks Daniel could use more time in the minors -- while his prosecutor (the equally fine Lee Grant) is ferociously well prepared. Both, as it turns out, reckon without the reformative powers of true love, and don't comprehend Daniel's capacity...
...President Bush has publicly exhorted the Iraqis to topple their leader. Yet what he and the allies had in mind was a palace coup, a change of regime "from the center in Baghdad," as one Saudi official put it, not a free-for-all in the provinces that might rip the country asunder. Such an outcome might be even less desirable, from the allied point of view, than an Iraq with Saddam still in control...
...course all novels are gossip novels, and most are rip-offs, generally of the author's friends and relatives. But the ethics of pilferage becomes woozy when too recognizable caricatures of dead grandees wallow in unlikely misbehavior. Ethical questions waft away, though, when the theft works. Then the stolen characters come to life; for instance, the dead King whom Shakespeare slurred as a bottled spider struts in his play as Richard...
...late. Northwest Flight 299, a 727 carrying 153 people, had just been cleared for takeoff, and was already roaring toward the DC-9. Unable to get above the lost aircraft, pilot Robert Ouellette felt his right wing rip into the DC-9's cabin and tear off one of its tail engines. Despite his shattered wing, Ouellette skillfully retained control and braked to a stop. Said an aide at the National Transportation Safety Board: "He damn well could have cartwheeled down the runway into another fireball. He saved his people...