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Other African-relief efforts gave a rough accounting of themselves last week, almost a year to the day after a group of Irish and British pop stars called Band Aid harnessed rock musicians to the job of feeding hungry people. Some $84 million has been raised, reported Kevin Jenden, the British architect who serves as executive director of the London-based Band Aid Trust and U.S. Live Aid Foundation. At least $34 million has already been spent for famine relief, says Jenden, which provided 17,000 tons of grain, 2,000 tons of milk powder, 1,200 tons of sugar...
...seated in the rear section, jumped into the aisle and shouted, "Don't move!" In the cockpit, a third man shoved the barrel of a pistol against the captain's head. The terrorists in the cabin instructed all passengers to surrender their passports. One of the men was particularly rough. "He was pulling people's papers out of their pockets and throwing them around and shouting," Loretana Chafik, an Egyptian passenger, later recalled. "When he got to an Israeli girl, he put his hands all over her. It was horrible...
...Chief Astronaut John Young charges that safety was sacrificed to "launch-schedule pressure." Young, 55, a highly respected veteran of shuttle or bits and Apollo moon flights, warned of an "awesome" list of safety problems, including a runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center that is too short, too rough and subject to erratic weather. While gliding the 100-ton shuttle into Kennedy rather than onto the dry lake beds at Ed wards Air Force Base in the California desert "may be a wonderful political policy," Young wrote his NASA bosses in January, "it is not an intelligent technical policy...
...sailors are captains now, but the seas are still rough. Women directors are free to make "people pictures" with women as sympathetic protagonists--as Deitch says, "We can't leave it all to Woody Allen"--or, like Spheeris and Heckerling, they can turn out action adventures as subtle as a Bigfoot truck at a demolition derby. Time and the accretion of power should help erase the stereotypes of women and their films. And be cause the system is changing, not just the women, the next generation of women may not need to exert so much of their energy and talent...
These eleven tales blend the domestic pity of Raymond Carver with the macabre comedy and rough justice of Roald Dahl. They nearly all turn, as most of Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother...