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...with most smears, Reed's allegations are built on a slim foundation of truth. Before being gunned down in Louisiana by a squad of Colombian hit men in 1986, a convicted drug smuggler and dea informant named Barry Seal was involved in something fishy at the airport in Mena, a heavily wooded town 130 miles west of Little Rock. In 1984 Seal played a part in Oliver North's campaign to prove that the Sandinista government was in league with Colombia's Medellin cocaine cartel. In exchange for a reduced sentence on drug-smuggling charges, Seal flew...
Allen's filming style spoofs the German expressionist genre--similarities to Frankenstein and The Seventh Seal abound. The film is shot entirely on soundstages designed by Santo Loquasto. Narrow cobblestone streets, gaslights and footbridges enhance the gloomy atmosphere. Shimmery ponds and a fake night sky further increase the mood and the comedy. Allen establishes the tone of the picture when a mystic (Charles Cragin), who uses his sense of smell to sniff out the strangler, leads to a torch-bearing mob through the winding streets...
...that could distort the company's fiscal picture. The note often includes the auditor's opinion of the company's business risks. But, cautions Dennis Beresford, chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the profession's chief rule-making body: "The auditor's signature is not the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval...
...employees in 22 offices around the globe. Because Salt Lake City has become a high-tech center as well, computer-aided translation comes naturally to many local workers. "It is a unique combination: a linguistically and culturally conscious society that is also computer literate," says ALPNET president Thomas Seal. Among the company's clients: Apple Computer, British Petroleum, NATO and Siemens. The U.S. Army recently called on ALPNET to translate 32,000 pages of information on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle into Arabic for the Saudi military...
Preppies, on the other hand, are more interested in a broad-based, liberal arts education than in a diploma with the Harvard seal...