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There is an old joke that the World Bank and IMF recruit third-rate students from first-rate universities, but that's only half the story. The truth is that even very intelligent and well-meaning people can be taught not to think critically, and visits to Harvard by the Mahuads, Sheikh Hasinas, and Wambia dia Wambas of the world sometimes contribute to this...
...focus and hunger to win paid swift dividends, as she won the Pan American championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994 and finished third in the 1995 world championships in her event, the epee. (Fencing has three events with slightly different blades and rules. In epee, you score by jabbing your opponent anywhere with the point of the weapon; in foil, you score only by touching point to torso; in saber, you score with any part of the blade but only above the waist.) The following year in Atlanta she won the gold in the inaugural epee category--and another gold...
Kofi Annan's next peacekeeping operation comes later this month--not in the jungles of a Third World nation but in Washington, where hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake. After almost three years of legislative foot dragging, Congress has agreed to pay $926 million of the $1.8 billion the U.N. says the U.S. owes in back dues. But the cash comes with about two dozen conditions that were crafted by Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms and the panel's senior Democrat, Joseph Biden. To get the first $100 million last year, the U.N. had to meet...
...bunkmate from sleep-away camp. But once the supportive circle of six women Senators left the podium and the applause subsided, Hillary simply couldn't make music. To her the Staples Center was the world's largest day-care center, and she the patient teacher, mouthing bromides in the singsongy style that Al Gore rose above for his own address. Along about the third reference to helping children, the audience began to drift. By the time she was saying thank you (for what she didn't say), many had lost the will to live. If the film introducing the President...
Some of this evolving story is reflected through Amanda's mind, a smaller portion through Ruth's, and the rest through regular third-person narration. The transitions seem a little jumpy and awkward at first, but Schwarz soon finds a smooth rhythm of backing and forthing, one that forestalls certain disclosures without seeming excessively calculating or coy. As the years pass on the farm and in the small village nearby--the Great Depression in the outside world is manifested here only as collapsing milk prices--the hope arises that maybe there was no dark secret about Mattie's death...