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...step into a home grown heart of darkness, but a thematic base for the reader to latch onto. When Drew later inexplicably keels over and out of his canoe, and drowns in a horrendous fall down a gorge's waterfall, we feel some innate moral order is rescuing this saint from this world and leaving the rest, bruised targets for the other stalking hillbilly, to their further sins...
Rowland was himself a painter as well as a scholar. His water colors are in the permanent collections of the Fogg Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the City-Art Museum of Saint Louis...
Stewarts Never A Dull Moment saw him settle into a comfortable groove. The Band's Rock of Ages (on one listen) but greatest hits, done New Oricans style thanks to Allen Toussaint's arranging Morrison's "Saint Dominic's Preview" was a return lyrically and musically, to music he had made nearly four years ago on Astrol Weeks...
Unlike some older French bankers, Saint-Geours argues that "it is possible to mix social legislation with the big business of the Common Market." He adds that, "the part that business can play is in fair and socially sensitive hiring policies. Companies must not merely select candidates on the basis of training or aptitude, but must keep a strong eye out for sex, race, socioeconomic standing and need." Saint-Geours's statements have raised some eyebrows in the stuffy world of French banking. "The system is basically an old-boy net," he says, "and it overlooks dozens of qualified...
From his base in Frankfurt, Jürgen Ponto has done even more than Saint-Geours to advance the cause of togetherness in banking. Ponto's Dresdner Bank is Germany's second largest (after Deutsche Bank) with $13 billion in assets. It has joined seven other international banks to form Société Financière Européenne (SFE), the world's largest such group, whose partners have assets of $130 billion. Last year Dresdner Bank also linked with three European banks in the Associated Banks of Europe Corp. (ABECOR). Members' assets total...