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...Haliday and Harvey had the first of many inspirations, as heralded by a sign on the Brattle facade: "Opening Soon! Foreign Films." With the success of their new program, they moved to New York City and leased the 55th Street Playhouse. And in 1956, from an office in the Wellington Hotel across the street, they launched Janus Films by purchasing a 1951 documentary called La course de taureaux, which they renamed Bullfight...
Marcia Johnson, 62, of Wellington, Fla., a married mother of three and a former dancer, received a diagnosis of anorexia a dozen years ago, although she now recognizes that she showed symptoms of it by puberty. Binckley and Johnson note that their nonstop focus on food and body image slowed down when they were cooking meals for their growing children. Then as middle age set in, a sense of loss--a feeling that's particularly acute for anorexics at midlife--set off a flare-up. "The loss of order--brought on by a change in job status, marriage, children...
...Honiara's politicians. The nominal Big Men who hop on and off the capital's political merry-go-round cannot deliver for their own communities nor for the nation as a whole. Unlike, for instance, a judge from Suva, a Canberra auditor, a Nuka'alofa constable or a Wellington diplomat-all the quiet, efficient public servants from around the region who have volunteered to help a troubled neighbor. When local M.P.s moan that they don't get credit for the progress that has been achieved, senior RAMSI members hold their tongues. "It's hard to know whether to laugh...
...Contemplating morning-tea fare mightn't sound exciting. But it's not as though it's distracting Taylor from a baffling abduction case. With a population of 1,800, Stratford has the lowest crime rate per capita in Wellington Shire. "The youth of this town respect the town," says Taylor, and the older folk fill Stratford's three churches on Sundays...
...Minister in 1990." (That was the year that the Conservative Party opted instead for John Major, who attended Rutlish Grammar School in south London.) It's not because Eton lacks famous alumni. Its graduates include 19 British Prime Ministers, the founder of modern chemistry Robert Boyle, the Duke of Wellington (the one who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo), economist John Maynard Keynes, writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Orwell, Soviet spy Guy Burgess, actor Hugh Laurie, Princes William and Harry, the fictional James Bond, even a Roman Catholic saint - as well as generations of less illustrious worthies. The problem is that...