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Few executives would describe Russia as "no risk," and the mixture of apprehension and opportunism with which Dixons is entering the market perfectly captures Western investors' feelings about the country's business climate. The Russian economy is powering ahead, propelled by the high price of oil, its key export. Growth...
To allay widespread skepticism, the government last week made other gestures of goodwill. At Crossroads, a wretched, ten-year-old squatters' camp outside Cape Town, where 18 blacks were killed by the police last February, authorities helped the first of up to 12,000 black residents make a voluntary move...
Such a statement intentionally blurs the line between truth and bravado. Hannah's speakers, Southerners almost to the man, habitually treat language as action, words as deeds. Roger Laird, the hero of Getting Ready, worries over his many and expensive failures to catch "a significant fish." Finally, some 30 miles...
In his Essay, Henry Grunwald refers to Emma Lazarus' words "the wretched refuse of your teeming shore" on the Statue of Liberty as "awful" poetry. I think they are magnificent and moving. I bet millions of immigrants agree with me. Robert W. Driver Indian Rocks Beach, Fla.
Uncertainty is scary, yes, but it’s fun, too. I go out at night now not knowing who I’ll meet or what will happen, but I almost always have a good time. I don’t know what I’ll end up...