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Farther south, the government of Argentina last week gave B.C.C.I. 48 hours / to pack up and leave the country. Authorities were particularly worried by the appearance of links between President Carlos Saul Menem and Saudi billionaire Ghaith Pharaon, a B.C.C.I. front man who is building a Hyatt Hotel in Buenos Aires and is a friend of Javier Gonzalez Fraga, the former president of Argentina's central bank. "We already know that the next scandal is going to tie President Menem with Ghaith Pharaon," an official said...
Singer had every right to act the celebrity, yet he was never at home in the modern style. His works were often published first in Yiddish in The Jewish Daily Forward and later in translation. Saul Bellow brought him wide recognition by rendering the poignant anecdote Gimpel the Fool in English. But royalties were slow to arrive, and for many years Singer lived modestly on the earnings of his second wife Alma, a buyer at Saks Fifth Avenue. Until late in life he kept his name in the Manhattan phone book, and at lunch hour he could be found munching...
...second lecture, a careful reading of Saul Kripke's account of the Wittgensteinian "solution" to the problem of skepticism, appears at first to bear little relation to the first lecture. Here Cavell is intent on untangling Kripke's seductive interpretation of Wittgenstein's passages on rule-following. Kripke, Cavell suggests, misconstrues Wittgenstein's sense of the skeptical in his very supposition that there is a problem to be solved...
...Argentina, where a free fall in the value of the austral threatened to raise inflation astronomically, the central bank was forced to intervene. The appointment by President Carlos Saul Menem of a new Economy Minister, Domingo Cavallo, appeared to restore investor confidence. By week's end the austral had been stabilized -- at a value of roughly 36% less against the dollar than a week earlier -- and investment funds rose 40%. But inflation remains such an endemic problem for the economies of both Argentina and Brazil that the prospect of last week's actions leading to real progress remained doubtful...
President Carlos Saul Menem wanted to "close a black chapter" in Argentina's history. But his decision last week to pardon ex-President Jorge Videla and half a dozen other leaders who had been jailed in 1986 for their role in Argentina's "dirty war" in the late 1970s only rekindled popular outrage. Nearly 50,000 citizens took to the streets of Buenos Aires to protest, and Bishop Jorge Novak called the measure a "humiliating defeat for the democratic system...