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High wire fences separate the United Nations refugee camp at Dheisheh from the rest of Bethlehem. Within, Palestinian children, hiding behind mounds of trash and rubble, sometimes hurl stones at passing cars. Deeper in the shadows, young Arab men vie for political ascendancy with threats of violence. Misbah Mohammed Rizq, 58, is Dheisheh's camp leader. For 30 years Abu Nabil, as Rizq is known, has doled out the U.N.'s meager rations, seen that the camp's fetid sanitation system works and interceded with the Israeli military government to keep his people out of trouble. He performs his difficult...
...real bargain," courtesy of California First? Those are the kinds of advertising claims that are wafting these days around banking's hottest product, the home-equity loan. A boomlet of sorts is under way as customers respond with enthusiasm to this form of consumer debt, while lenders vie frantically for customers and market share. But amid the rush, cautionary voices are warning about the dangers of the popular loans, and the misleading nature of some of the hype. The major worry: that some unwary consumers may be undercutting an integral factor in most American savings portfolios, the family home...
...world's most pretentious donut shop. Only Cambridge, I thought, could boast a java-and-danish nook with a ridiculous French name and prices four times the normal exchange rate. But no one else seemed to notice any irregularity, and by the time the "Au Bon Pain" and "Vie de France" explosion was over, "patisserie" signs were as common as lesbian poets on the streets of Cambridge. It just wasn't news...
Congress deals a blow to a weakened but combative President by overriding Reagan' s veto of the highway bill. -- States vie for the superconducting supercollider accelerator. -- Marine guards often turned the U. S. embassy in Moscow into an "Animal House." -- Former Quarterback Jack Kemp' s game plan for '88 presidential race...
From the belle to the nuclear epoch, the world recalled in both these books seems remote from history. Mellons, Fricks, Altmans and Rockefellers vie for Giorgiones, Titians, Bellinis and Botticellis, while offstage monarchies disintegrate, nation-states aggressively come of age, and men are pulped in the trenches. There is a certain amount of glee in reading about rich innocents abroad who retained Berenson as an art consultant without knowing the extent of his ties to Duveen and other dealers. If the "squillionaires," as Berenson called them, did not always get what they paid for, they at least got royal treatment...