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...this point, they pick up Bo Tat, the elephant, and his young caretaker (Dinh Thien Le). The group then tries to bring Bo Tat all the way across Vietnam without anybody noticing...
Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises. Few readers probably know that Samuel Goldwyn once offered Freud $100,000 to write a "love story" for his movie studio. Sometimes Douglas gets her details wrong. Gertrude Stein's famous tautology ("Rose is a rose is a rose"), for example, does not begin with "A," as the book quotes it. But these are minor flaws in an erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis, both of which had a sense "of having been a specially privileged and charged site of American experience.'' We shall not see their...
...world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis."MONEY
...Bosnia, Yasushi Akashi, preferring negotiation, vetoes them. When air strikes are called again and finally approved by the U.N. bureaucrats, NATO planes are foiled by weather, and a British Sea Harrier jet is shot down. The pinprick attacks fail even to achieve the minimal logic of tit for tat. They become tit for tat -- when the weather is good and Akashi is in the mood...
...Israelis are allowing the Hawks to carry weapons on the streets," charges a Hamas member. A Palestinian was killed when Hawks opened fire on Hamas activists who threw stones at them in Gaza's Rafah refugee camp two weeks ago. Last week Fatah and Hamas engaged in tit-for-tat kidnappings of each other's members in Jabalia. The hostages were freed within 24 hours, but tension between the two main Palestinian groups remains high...