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...said he was pleased that Newsweek recognizedreconstruction as "a vibrant and important forumfor discussion...
...cold- blooded slaying of Basu touched nerves long numbed by statistics, destroying any notion that only a life of vice could lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist is described by colleagues as a vibrant and outspoken intellectual who doted on her daughter. They recall the endless obstacles she and her husband Biswanath overcame to adopt the little girl named Sarina...
...Gallic lamina is thin. The Ivory Coast's population, 13 million, consists of 80 ethnic groups, each of which speaks a different dialect. The miracle country is growing somewhat threadbare. Throughout most of the 1970s, the Ivory Coast enjoyed annual economic-growth rates of 6% to 7%, the most vibrant in former French West Africa. The trend has reversed since coffee and cocoa prices collapsed in the 1980s. High oil prices mean a gallon of gasoline sells at $5. From 1986 to 1989, export earnings dropped from $3.2 billion to $2.5 billion, while costs continued to rise. Total debt...
...natural. Speaking in a vibrant alto voice, she recalls the mansion's past, the various additions made through the centuries, some of them amusingly botched. Seamlessly, she shifts to her family's life within its walls, how her three children enjoy biking through Phoenix Park, how she came to put a light in the family kitchen window -- the Irish symbolic welcome home to those who have emigrated. When the session is over and the President has slipped away as quietly as she arrived, everyone is beaming. A white-haired lady sighs with satisfaction and breathes, "Isn't she someone...
...result is a three-dimensional sound image with much of the presence, depth and dynamics of a live band. Trumpets bite, cymbals sizzle, bass strings snap and ring. Like an art restorer who scrapes off centuries' worth of grime to reveal the vibrant colors of the original, Parker makes it possible to hear the music as it must have sounded in New Orleans dance halls and Harlem ballrooms 60 years...