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...only real change in the text--the conversion of the Duke of Venice to the Duchess of Venice--is a cutesy, annoying attempt at originality. Emilia's "ills that we do" speech to Desdemona in Act IV, scene 4, explains that men wield all the power in the play. More than simple cross-casting, Williams' decision is a script revision that helps to undermine the strength of Othello's clear and present gender tensions...
Peru provides another intriguing example of how B.C.C.I. came to wield unusual power over sovereign finances. When Alan Garcia Perez was elected President of Peru in 1985, he inherited a nation in economic chaos, owing $14 billion to foreign banks and governments. The 36-year-old President stunned the international financial world by announcing that he would no longer deal with the IMF. Peru would henceforth repay its debt on its own schedule...
...seems clear enough, some mysteries remain. One is what Saddam intends to do with the air force he has taken such care to keep intact by keeping his planes hidden in bunkers. Some American analysts suspect he will never use his jets in combat but will save them to wield as a postwar political weapon. In this view, the dictator knows he is going to be driven out of Kuwait but expects to survive still holding power in Iraq. If he throws the planes into the battle for Kuwait, they will only be shot down. If he keeps them...
That Saddam intends to develop a nuclear arsenal is doubted by no one. He has openly bragged that Iraq will be the first Arab nation to wield an atom bomb. But most experts -- including those in the Administration -- believe that Bush is greatly overstating the immediate danger posed by Iraq's nuclear arms program...
...struck down every prior restraint it has considered on the merits. It has also recognized the good served by the airing of alleged government misconduct and granted the press special leeway in those cases. The CNN dispute fits squarely into that mould. The power that the national media can wield may be frightening, but it is mild in comparison to the danger of placing editorial decisions in the hands of the judiciary. Moreover, given the questionable complicity between Noriega and the United States Government, we cannot allow that secrecy to continue...