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...basic plot remains, and it's an engagingly complex one as most of Crichton's scenarios are wont to be. A gorgeous party girl is found strangled on the boardroom table of a Japanese conglomerate one floor above a gala bash celebrating the opening of the new company headquarters...
When Harvard students think of musical groups on campus, names like Mozart or Krokodiloes come to mind. Spanking Venus is probably wont make the list. Here is a guide to some of the hands at Harvard and how they got their names...
...recent years, with a curious consistency, the scheduled indolence of August has been interrupted by the sound of gunfire -- in Kuwait, in the failed Moscow coup, in half a dozen hot spots. As he is wont to point out, George Bush is the man who receives the midnight phone calls when such crises erupt overseas and who has "the guts" to act. It is August, and there are two dangerous disasters blazing on the horizon. Yet Bush, the foreign policy President, is moving most cautiously to deal with them...
...years, were always awed, and often overruled, by her command of the language. She could outtalk them as well in Arabic as in English. She has a good ear for saying the right thing the right way, says a member of the peace delegation -- not talking, as Palestinians are wont to do, out of two sides of her mouth, but shaping a single message to penetrate the preconceptions of different listeners. She also has a talent, aggravating to her rivals, for expressing a position better than the person who created it. "She knows," says one of her critics, "that language...
...trip was billed as a global showdown, an expedition designed to "level the playing field," as American businessmen are wont to say. Yet even before George Bush's new 747 touched down at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Japan and its supporters had deftly weakened the American campaign to win trade concessions by raising a touchy issue: large disparities in the money paid to American CEOs and their Japanese counterparts...