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It is perhaps the most enduring ritual in revolutionary Iran: the late-night summons, the slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures...
A man awakens in a padded room. He cannot remember how he got there or much of anything else. Two women are watching him, and from them he learns his name: Miles Green. He begins to dislike the observer who calls herself his wife and feels relieved when she goes...
Paredes' ambitions are not expected to encounter resistance from the new President. A Stanford-trained economist and head of Panama's National Bank until he became Vice President in 1978, De la Espriella was regarded as a competent financial manager. He poses no threat to the dominant influence...
> A modernization program scheduled to be completed in September is already changing life for local forecasters, whether they are blow-dried TV personalities or the salty voices on marine weather radio. By installing minicomputers and video screens at its regional offices and connecting them to its nationwide computer network, the...
Sellars offers explanations for many of his departures in the scene-by-scene synopsis he has prepared for Orlando's audiences. Though gratuitously academic at times ("In an extraordinary passage in 5/8 time, considered outlandish and daring in the 18th century, Orlando crosses the river Styx...) and occasionally pretentious ("What...