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...displays signs announcing the nonexistent express bus to the Jordanian capital of Amman, the British Bank of the Middle East stands apparently abandoned. Its front windows are covered by rusty metal shutters, the shutters covered with Arab handbills. "The Israelis wanted the bank to stay open," says an Arab wise in local charades, "but then it might be closed down in all Arab countries. So the manager remains here to do business, but you must call him at home, and then he comes down here, and there is a back way. Look here." The Arab points to an unmarked entrance...
...only did the guerrillas fail to intimidate voters, they were able to mount only scattered skirmishes in place of a promised nationwide offensive. Yet, by blocking voting in the eastern town of Usulutan (pop. 41,000), the media-wise rebels attracted almost as much journalistic attention as they would have by creating numerous disruptions across the country. Fighting in Usulutan and a handful of other places provided the second sentence of the morning-after election reports in the New York Times and Washington Post, and commanded a separate Page One story in the Los Angeles Times. Although nearly all newspapers...
...sitting. The ending is just the right bit upbeat. These guys are going to grow up; they'll somehow make it out of this world all right. Just look at what happened to Barry Levinson--he got out and made it to Hollywood, where he put together this wise, introspective, totally four-star diner...
...wise Chinese philosopher once said. "Don't feed a small dragon." We have fed our tax dragon much too well, and much too long. I strongly urge the clear thinking people of Cambridge who are not pursuing selfish interests, and who are concerned with the long-term economic health of Cambridge, to vote NO on both issues dealing with Proposition 2 1/2 override on Election Day, April 13th. John B. Vidak
Ezra's homesick restaurant is not very profitable. It does manage to survive on its owner's terms, which, if one reads Tyler correctly, are worth more than the print-outs of an efficiency expert. Cody, in fact, hates Ezra for his wise foolishness and steals his fiancée. She is a scrawny country girl who unhappily ends up in expensive boxy suits and fancy automobiles. But Ezra is not deterred. A would-be wife turned sister-in-law is still family, and a family should eat together...