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...chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting by Paolo Veronese...
...safe bet that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion has for the most part filled the shortfall. And even if Colombia was unable to meet the demand of the U.S. market, the simple economics of supply and demand would see the industry establish new production centers elsewhere in the region. "Remember...
...phony and a cutthroat" and cannot wait to take him on. While he doesn't quite know what to make of the Vice President, people close to him say, he has a gut dislike for him. Already you can hear it when he talks about Gore's "slash-and-burn politics": "Mr. Gore, I'm not going to let you get away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist...
Chris Whittle, Edison's founder and CEO, is staking his company's future on its ability to slash administrative costs. For every dollar in a typical school's budget, 20[cents] to 30[cents] goes to administration. Edison spends around 16[cents] and plans to cut that to 8[cents]. "The money we save on central costs goes to the schools, and a portion goes to the bottom line," Whittle says. His goal is a 7%-to-8% profit margin. "If we were simply going to cut overall costs," he notes, "we would not be viable." Whittle puts the magic...
Just when it seems it couldn't get any worse for Marty McSorley, it does. After delivering a two-handed slash to Donald Brashear of the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 21, the Boston Bruins enforcer, goon, strong-man--call him what you will--was slapped with the harshest penalty ever given by the National Hockey League (NHL), and was suspended for the rest of the season. Since then, he has been demonized, vilified and chastised by the horrified public and has become for some the embodiment of everything wrong with hockey. Even his fellow players have lashed out against...