Word: robert
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...sanctions since mid-1998 against UNITA's diamond dealing have had little effect. Canada's U.N. ambassador, Robert Fowler, head of the Angolan sanctions committee, now has two panels of experts investigating UNITA's sanctions-busting operations and searching for a way to plug the embargo's holes. Fowler plans to put expert monitors in key trading centers to identify gems that could emanate from UNITA-held areas. He will also put U.N. customs officials at points in Africa where UNITA might move diamonds, money or weapons. At the same time, human-rights and environmental lobbyists have been pushing...
Amazingly, there is. Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking) is the more accessible of the two. (The other book, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero [Oxford], while philosophically deeper, is self-consciously obscure; its author, Robert Kaplan, writes in Zen koans and could have penned the Fendi tag line...
...Robert Reeder, a 6'7, 240-pound power forward, and Chris Williams, a 6'4, 210-pound small forward, lead the team with an average of 5.7 boards per contest apiece. Freshman Scott Long, a 6'6 forward, is also coming off an 8-point, 6-rebound performance in just 16 minutes of action against Coast Guard on Monday...
Going to an A.R.T show always brings with it a certain air of the carnivalesque. Artistic Director Robert Brustein has assembled an astonishingly innovative team of theater technicians, and they're usually over-eager to flex their muscles. Ivanov is certainly not without its own bag of tricks. But Yeremin never lets these tricks develop into a full-fledged side-show. And how could they? Yeremin's staging and visual landscaping of Chekov's play is so breath-taking that we cannot be distracted from it. In Yeremin's hands, Ivanov on stage becomes as lush as Dr. Zhivago...
...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...