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Into Harry's shop one day walks Andrew Osnard, a presumed customer who slowly turns into a tormentor. Osnard reveals that he knows all about Harry's past and nearly as much about his present, especially his investment of Louisa's $200,000 inheritance in a money-losing rice farm. "I'm a spy," Osnard tells the stunned Harry. "Spy for Merrie England. We're reopening Panama...
...exchange, Tehran left him a large cache of weapons. That, said Barzani, is what scared him into his unthinkable alliance with Saddam. Still, Kurdish alliances can change in minutes. Barzani has already passed a message to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, saying he threw in with the Kurds' old tormentor only to counterbalance Iranian military intervention on Talabani's side. Now he wants the U.S. to come back and make peace among the Kurds. That would be a fool's mission, since many Kurds were revolted by an alliance, however momentarily useful, with the Butcher of Baghdad...
...work of a Wall Street Journal columnist listed as Mark Helprin. Come again? The Helprin known by starving artists and threadbare assistant professors of English is, after all, an aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing, operatic past in which to luxuriate. One tall tale had his father refusing to let Helprin eat supper until, standing at attention, he had told a satisfactory original story...
...worth less when you get it will leave this escape hatch a lot narrower. Residency requirements, for example, effectively bar women from fleeing their abusers from one state to another, and work requirements will discourage the woman with no child care from escaping her--and possibly her children's--tormentor...
...like autos, machine tools and computer chips, where a few years ago they were being trounced. The U.S. firms are not only turning back an import invasion of American markets but also triumphing in so-called third-country export markets and even swiping some sales in Japan and other tormentor countries. The closest thing to an official world championship of business is top rank among the nations studied by the Swiss-based World Economic Forum, and last month the forum made the announcement: after eight years of Japanese domination, the U.S. in 1993 had the world's most competitive economy...