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...bank, which was launched in the peaceful afterglow of World War II as the basis for an orderly and wise international economic system, is financed by contributions from the wealthiest of its 177 shareholder nations. Yet the institution now faces a cacophony of grievances. Among them...
...only warming up. It seems that Killigan's son Michael, Boone's idealistic friend, has gone missing while on Peace Corps duty in Sierra Leone. The scene shifts to the African outback, and the reader worries for a chapter or two that Dooling intends to serve up the traditional wise and ! mysterious natives of white-man-in-Africa fiction who look on gravely as the palefaces disintegrate...
...that Macaulay Culkin is a teenager, vulnerability, the quality that has prevented his wise child from turning into a wise guy, comes harder for him. Now that Ted Danson is a movie star, or thinks he is, stupidity comes harder for him. Danson's character in Getting Even with Dad is supposed to be an inept thief, but the actor doesn't want to dig into dumbness, which is where the laughs, if any, might be. Untutored is the worst he'll allow himself to seem. Untutored, but capable of sensitivity, of love, of being a '90s beau ideal...
...first meet of the season, it finished second out of 15 teams at the Fordham Invitational, perhaps its best meet of the year team-wise...
...probably my best year team-wise since I've been here," Fraiberg says. "In the past, it has seemed more individualistic. This year, it seemed that everyone was counting on everyone else. We pushed each other hard, and were there for each other when we didn't do so well...