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...fundamental challenge to Chamorro, and the most urgent claim on the U.S., remains Nicaragua's economy. "The country needs to be completely rehabilitated," says Sol Linowitz, former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States and co-negotiator of the 1977 Panama Canal treaty. According to a 1986 World Bank study, the Nicaraguan economy will need $1.3 billion a year for the next ten years just to keep ahead of the country's growing population. The U.N.O. has called for at least $2 billion in U.S. aid -- $200 million immediately and $600 million annually for the next three years. Oklahoma...
...long been pre-eminent in human thoughts and actions. Almost from the beginning, people worshiped the sun as the beneficent provider of light and life, and as a god, called Ra by the Egyptians, Helios by the Greeks and Sol by the Romans. To the Aztecs, the sun god was Huitzilopochtli, whom they nourished with human sacrifices. Egypt's great pyramids at Giza were built with their sides aligned with the rising sun at the vernal equinox, and the temple complex at Karnak was dedicated to Ra. The ancient circle at Stonehenge, in England, was apparently constructed so that...
...first thought about stopping in 1974, when his father died, and then his manager, Sol Hurok. "I adored both of them," he says. "It was really quite a blow." And the virtuoso circuit was exhausting. "The life of a musician is the most solitary life. Sometimes I did find it very difficult." Cliburn never made any sharp break, just gradually stopped accepting new engagements, spent more time visiting friends (he lives with his mother, Rildia Bee, now 92), composing piano pieces, buying English antiques, presiding over the quadrennial piano competition that bears his name, working out, enjoying himself...
Weintrob's effective staging is evident in a pivotal scene where, to Austin's dismay, Lee barges in on his negotiations with Sol, (John Byrd) the effete producer. Austin's worst fears are confirmed, as Lee quickly wins Sol's friendship with good-natured masculine bombast. By the end of the scene, the brothers' mutual jealously has surfaced, and Weintrob has hidden Austin in the background, where his consternation is initially barely noticeable but soon becomes a focus of attention. Lee, however, has established himself as the "man of the house...
Felder, whose firm billed some $12 million last year, is one of the sharpest operators at the negotiating table. Typical of his bargaining skills was the 1986 out-of-court settlement that saved more than $400 million for real estate magnate Sol Goldman, who has since died. But when Felder does go to court, says Peter Bronstein, a well-known Manhattan matrimonial lawyer, "he stands up and he yells and screams. People know he's there." The dapper Felder, who charges $450 per hour (compared with Mitchelson's $350), attributes his success in part to a no-nonsense...