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...does really think that there is no distinction between I virtue and vice," warns Dr. Samuel Johnson, "why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." Judging by the recent pronouncements of some of our leaders, it is time to start husbanding spoons. Not that anyone in public life denies that there are moral distinctions to be made; but there seems to be a growing unwillingness-or is it an inability?-to make them, even the most simple...
Ever since Sir Percy Cox of Great Britain drafted Kuwait's boundaries in 1922, Kuwaiti foreign policy has been in a state of delicate balance. The country has resolutely avoided attachments to any of its more powerful neighbors, notably Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, which is separated from Kuwait by a slender, 25-mile finger of Iraq. Notes one Western diplomat: "The only things the Kuwaitis have are diplomacy and money. They either try to talk themselves out of trouble or buy themselves out." During the past six months, the Kuwaitis have been doing a lot of both. Despite...
...successor to the late Sir John...
...near future. In cases just this year, Texaco bought back 9.8% of its shares for $1.28 billion from the Bass family, Warner Communications paid Rupert Murdoch $180.6 million for his 7% interest in the firm, St. Regis purchased for $160 million the 8.6% of its firm held by Sir James Goldsmith, and Quaker State Oil Refining gave Steinberg $47 million for his 8.9% of the company...
Schwed has since retired and had nothing to do with Vengeance-the same story from the same secret agent but with a new writer. It was offered by a small Canadian publisher to Michael Korda, who jumped at it. Korda is the nephew of Film Producer Sir Alexander Korda. Articulate, aggressive and imperturbably assured, he makes so little secret of his ambition for recognition that friends consider it part of his Hungarian charm. Among his own bestsellers is Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, a book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype...