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Under such circumstances every acquisition entails a sacrifice, and there is no margin for error or whim. The Wells children stay home from class skating trips because Sandy cannot manage the $1.50 for skate rental. "They know the value of money, my kids do," she says. "They get money, they don't spend it on candy or toys. They say, 'Mom, I want to buy shoes for school.' " But every now and then, when equanimity ruptures, the family will splurge. One time last fall, Sandy recalls, "we paid the lot rent and we had, like, $40 left. It was supposed...
...says a senior British diplomat who has dealt with him. "Human life means nothing to him." He plays the complex game of Middle East politics by the bareknuckle rules of the region. Says another diplomat: "He does what he thinks is expedient. He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every move. He is simply a brutal and very clever pragmatist." Adds TIME correspondent Dan Goodgame: "On meeting him, a visitor is first struck by his eyes, crackling with alertness and at the same time cold and remorseless as snake eyes on the sides of dice. They...
...that Saddam is cunningly sane. "He is not a lunatic," says a high- ranking Israeli intelligence official. "He is a megalomaniac, but he is rational." Concurs Philip Robins, head of Middle East programs at the London- based Royal Institute of International Affairs: "He is not driven by ideology or whim. He coldly calculates every move...
...Italian director Pietro Germi in his brilliant '60s comedies Divorce Italian Style and Seduced and Abandoned. But what played in Sicily for Germi doesn't work in Tacoma, Wash., for Lawrence Kasdan. This crime does not spring from the polluted mores of a medieval society; it is the private whim of an exasperated woman. I Love You to Death lacks the precision, ferocity and guts needed for black farce. It has the American failing: it just wants to be loved...
...modest increase in the number of directly elected legislators after 1997. As it was, only 18 out of 60 seats were to be filled by open ballot. Since Tiananmen Square, however, Hong Kong's top priority has been to increase that allotment as a hedge against rule by Communist whim...