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Eric Lax has published the most thorough biography (Woody Allen, 1990) about him to date. He chronicles Allen's life and career through narrative and discussion with various friends, family members and colleagues in the film industry. The book provides well written entertainment and insight for current and potential fans alike...
...demonstrators did a thorough job on Venezuela's embassy in Tripoli last week, smashing furniture, torching rooms, even uprooting plants from the garden. The sacking followed the United Nations Security Council's imposition of sanctions against Libya for refusing to surrender six suspected agents sought in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 and a French airliner over Africa in 1989. Crowds also attacked or demonstrated before the embassies of other countries that had voted in favor of the sanctions...
ANYONE conducting a thorough newspaper search will find that the number of women whose deaths from legal abortion have been reported in the press exceeds the Center for Disease Control statistics. And that is just reported deaths. How much murder, rape and violence against homosexuals each year fail to make the papers? Quite a lot. Why should death from abortion, which can open a doctor to charges of wrongful death, malpractice suits and the revoking of his license, be any different...
...read the following description of SAC found in the Foundation's booklet: "[SAC's] primary responsibility is to review student grant requests and award funding with the approval of the Faculty Advisory Committee." It's not too much to expect SAC to perform its "primary responsibility" in a thorough and respectable manner...
...harsh truth, these economists say, is that the ruble cannot become stable without an overhaul of the economy far more thorough than what Yeltsin seems willing to risk. With 90% of Russia's production, distribution and retail outlets still in the inefficient hands of the state, they contend, supply cannot rise enough to slow inflation and restore long-term value to the ruble. "This amounts to trying to square the circle," says economist Nicholas Eberstadt, a Harvard research fellow. "The first step should be to privatize the factors of production." Adds Francis Scotland, managing director of the Investment Bank Credit...