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That and one other experience convinced us that, even though about 70 percent of the Burmese economy is black-market and the government often appears hopelessly out of touch with society, people take it seriously. We went to the Rangoon train station to try to get a Burmese to buy us train tickets instead of doing it at Tourist Burma at the official rate. The same people who wanted to buy our dollars, Walkmen, cassettes, cosmetics, T-shirts and even underwear, wouldn't touch our money to break that rule. It's as though the government tacitly cedes certain areas...
...vast state-run conglomerate that dates back to Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...
...turns out to have the soul of one as well, brave and clever but never self-sentimentalizing. She is discovered as a silent little creature, scuttling through air ducts too small for the aliens to penetrate, living an almost rodent-like existence. Her plight would be enough to touch anyone's heart, but in this context, only Ripley has the time and the wit to appreciate...
Then again, an all-Texas World Series would put nice finishing touch on Texas' 150th Anniversary...
...what exists without any promise . . . fearsomely indifferent . . . It is within this bleak natural context that beauty is encountered, and the encounter is by its nature sudden and unpredictable . . . This is why it moves us." After arguing that "art is always a form of prayer," Berger closes with a quick touch of irony: "The white wooden bird is wafted by the warm air rising from the stove in the kitchen where the neighbors are drinking. Outside, in minus 25 degrees C, the real birds are freezing to death...