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...protection of its film industry. The fight concerns money and cultural identity: U.S. films, comedies and action pictures have a 60% market share in France, while films from the entire European Community, many of which involve ineffable sentiments, have barely 1% of the U.S. market. Here's a rundown of what's hot in France...
Home is a rundown walk-up in Old Havana, where filth clings to peeling plaster and the reek of garbage sticks in the throat. Makeshift walls, festooned with frayed electric wires, subdivide the old apartments into tiny windowless warrens. When we arrive early one morning, she is locked behind massive doors. A woman with the face of a Madonna stares impassively over the half door to her dark flat. Down the hall another head pokes out: the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution has taken note of our arrival...
...center opened in 1978 in a house and then moved to a somewhat rundown warehouse in 1980, before moving to its present location. The move was made possible by a two million dollar donation by Hale & Dorr...
...rich if restless man, since investigators could not untangle his schemes without some inside help. But they found their songbird last month, when Gardini's successor at Montedison was arrested and extradited from Switzerland. Giuseppe Garofano was brought back to Milan and immediately began giving investigators a detailed rundown of the company's double bookkeeping and multimillion-dollar payoffs to politicians. He gave them enough to issue warrants for the arrest of five top Ferruzzi executives, including Gardini...
...threatened with extinction but otherwise exploited? Or are they somehow different, a race of intelligent, sensitive mammals that deserves special treatment? Norway's action has raised these questions anew; so has the release of Free Willy, the sentimental movie about a boy who rescues a killer whale from a rundown aquatic theme park. (O.K., a killer whale is technically more of a giant dolphin than a whale, but the distinction is mostly academic.) A phone number flashed on the screen during Free Willy's closing credits, offering information on how to join a campaign to protect whales, drew...