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...couple cents more" to account for higher costs, O'Reilly said. The dolphin-free promise was matched on the same day by the two other major canners, Bumble Bee Seafoods and Van Camp Seafood, which sells Chicken of the Sea brand. Environmentalists responded with glee. "It was an incredibly wise and incredibly responsible action," said Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, who is a co-sponsor of a dolphin-protection bill. But August Felando of the American Tunaboat Association contended that the action would only serve to penalize the fishing fleet, which has improved its methods for protecting dolphins...
...opponents "to operate on America's terms, so that you can then do whatever you determine it is in your interests to do." Given the U.S.'s diminishing economic position relative to Japan and Germany, "on America's terms" may be too lofty an ambition. But it is always wise to pursue a smooth working relationship with your bankers...
Rather than chronicling last spring's events, Lord concentrates on coming to terms with legacies from the past: her family's and China's. In her uncle Jieu Jieu, the wise peasant who boasts an "unwashable brain," Lord sees the best aspects of the masses in whose name the Chinese revolution was waged. Supremely pragmatic, Jieu Jieu never bought Chairman Mao's line that the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s would instantly catapult China into the ranks of industrialized countries. On the other hand, Lord broods over the dilemma of an elderly scholar whose Western education made...
...Branford Marsalis, who has played with Chapman. "People were so used to hearing imperfection," he says, "they were bowled over by perfection. People were ready to hear music again." And there is that voice, a rich contralto that seemed to come from a hundred miles away. A sweet, sad, wise voice that haunted almost all who heard it. A voice that seemed to know things that they didn't. A record to be played alone and late at night...
Saturday night, in one of the best games of the season, entertainment-wise and skill-wise, the Crimson shot 56 percent from the field and 93 percent from the line, and still lost, 82-78, to second-place Yale...