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...textile factories, shrimp-processing plants and other businesses. The city is a commercial and banking center, as well as the capital of Vietnam's burgeoning oil and gas industry, which generates most of the nation's export income. Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street, formerly Tu Do (Freedom) Street, formerly the Rue Catinat-perhaps Vietnam's most famous avenue-is newly lined with first-class restaurants and gracefully remodeled office buildings. Cholon, the Chinese commercial district, is thriving. Indeed, Vietnam's 1 million ethnic Chinese, long a persecuted minority, are responsible for much of the South's growth...
...Harris, is splendid. As Tom, Zeljko Ivanek is particularly fine. With quicksilver facility, he is now the sly commentator standing outside the action, now the hot-tempered and frustrated artist. When he nearly upsets Laura's menagerie, the look that flashes across his face is a tiny cornucopia of rue, love, self-disgust, fear and resignation. Calista Flockhart's Laura is near perfect, her pathological shyness so organic that it is painful to watch. Only a tendency to sing her words mars her performance. As the Gentleman Caller upon whom Amanda pins her great hopes for Laura, Kevin Kilner...
...have begun to produce some first- rate scientific papers, they have yet to generate the trailblazing innovations that have streamed out of American laboratories. But the energy and exuberance alone of the Asians make them worth watching. Not tomorrow, perhaps, but a few decades from now, the U.S. may rue the policy drift that is eroding its research infrastructure as slowly and as surely as water rusts the steel girders of a bridge. For if political leaders in such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong are sufficiently patient and nurture the seedling research efforts they have planted, the scientific breakthroughs...
...create a kind of lyric poetry about the things he loved: the forced intimacy of Manhattan foot traffic, a beach house at midnight, the fidelity in a cocker spaniel's tilted glance, the tenseness in a young wife's posture, the sweet-and-sour scents of rosemary and rue, the pulse of lust beneath a Republican vest...
Some killjoys think the states will rue the day that they got carried away by tax-cut fever. The rise in state revenues is not sustainable, says Hal Hovey, editor and publisher of State Budget & Tax News, a bimonthly publication. He believes spending will again be pushed up by "two elephants": Medicaid spending, which will rise once the economy slows, and the severe pressure of rising prison populations. So states, he thinks, will have to either cut other services or raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should...