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...attitude--sometimes cautious, always confident, occasionally acid, as when he referred to the Girl Scout who wanted to sell a box of cookies to Ronald Reagan as "the little huckster." And sometimes possessed of a tart sense of humor, as when Roberts replied to a professor anxious about being blacklisted because he had lodged a complaint against a government agency: "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody wants...
Transport officials at the European Union are so worked up over recent plane crashes in Greece and Venezuela, which killed 281 people, that they are considering drafting a blacklist for airlines--mostly in Africa and South America--that fail to meet standards set by such groups as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a Montreal-based U.N. agency. U.S. officials and industry sources think that an airline blacklist would create unneeded stigmas. Instead, the Federal Aviation Administration monitors air-safety systems by country and restricts flights to the U.S. from 26 nations that fall short of ICAO standards. Says...
...with young gamblers and is exploring cognitive techniques that instead teach kids to recognize the triggers that get them to gamble too much. The states may also have a role to play. Illinois has instituted a self-exclusion program in which gamblers can put their names on a voluntary blacklist, allowing casinos to eject them from the premises, require them to donate their winnings to a gambling-treatment program and, in some cases, charge them with trespassing...
...highly successful collection for an actress who was waiting on tables right up until the release of Reuben, in case it flopped. Now swamped with scripts, McGillis, 28, has just finished a romantic thriller, once titled The House on Sullivan Street, in which she plays a McCarthy-era blacklist victim. She has also been an "unborn soul," of all ethereal things, in the soon-to-be-released Made in Heaven. Next month McGillis will start shooting Dreamers in Israel, portraying a Jewish pioneer in early 20th century Palestine. "I loved working with her," says Sullivan Street Director Peter Yates...
...Nation's financial success that parts of the book read like a Harvard Business School case study--which isn't surprising, since Navasky enrolled there part time after buying the magazine in 1994. Navasky, whose previous book, Naming Names, was an acclaimed history of the Hollywood blacklist, is far more effective and entertaining in chronicling the brawls "between liberals and radicals" during the cold war, when the magazine's writers would spar over the major issues of the day: race, sex and communism. In recent years, the Nation has drifted toward ideological orthodoxy, which has cheered its liberal base...