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...must come down here today, now, this very minute," Jablonski replied. He told Nash that a colleague had just returned from an expedition to Namibia, where he had unearthed fossils that shed amazing new light on evolution's "Big Bang"--the unparalleled explosion of life forms that sprang into being during the Cambrian period. So began an odyssey that led Nash to labs, museums and rocky outcroppings across the country, and culminated in the extraordinary report in this week's issue...
...Israel it is customary for confessed murderers to re-enact their crimes, and Amir performed so smoothly that there can be no doubt about what he did and how he did it. What kind of help he had, however, is still unresolved. Security forces keep proclaiming the assassination sprang from a conspiracy, but they have yet to offer hard evidence of the theory. Police and secret-service interrogators have spent days questioning the eight young religious zealots in custody, yet they do not seem to have found proof of an organized network acting on orders from any hierarchy...
Cultural factors also help explain Investcorp's marketing success. When the bank got started in the early 1980s, many of its Arab clients were unschooled in Western business practices. Kirdar was their bridge to the West. He spoke their language, sprang from their culture, yet was Western educated (he has an M.B.A. from New York's Fordham University) and had trained in a big U.S. bank. Kirdar understood his clients' taste in brand names. One reason Investcorp bought Gucci, says an Arab banker, is that "the Arabs wear the shoes." Many were happy to hand millions of dollars to Kirdar...
...face of adversity, some residents turned to humor. Several student posters sprang up, parodying the official posters that announced times that the alarm system would be tested...
...Previn sprang into action for the symphony, directing more vigorously than he had in the Ravel. In the second movement, which is predicated on rumbling rotations around a handful of pitches, Previn admirably prevented the BSO from sounding cumbersome. The eerie series of suggestions from the winds and keyboard instruments was neatly enveloped by the strings' rolling momentum...