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...given to a non-American always a job lost; in fact, sometimes the opposite is true. One of the signatories to the Hyde letter is Zvi Or-Bach, an Israeli engineer who six years ago founded Chip Express, a manufacturer of custom-made microchips that has 64 employees--only 30 are foreign--in Santa Clara, California, and 30 more in Israel. Under the Simpson bill, Or-Bach argues, he would have been unable to hire enough skilled workers to start up his thriving firm. In fact, there would have been no one to dream up the company, since Or-Bach...
...some of Forbes' business-world friends, including Greenberg, Lauder and Philadelphia developer Richard Fox, have served as shakers of the donor tree, persuading others to chip in. While they deny seeking personal gain, if Forbes wins, they still might hope for special treatment from his White House. (Or if he loses, from his magazine.) Charles Lewis, author of The Buying of the President, sees it this way: "Forbes is a millionaire who says he's not beholden to special interests who is now beholden to special interests...
Callow has all that to consider in his second volume: how the seductive boy became the self-destructive man; why Hollywood blackballed a director who loved film so recklessly and, in his first pass at the mechanical muse, conquered her. But Welles left a monument no one can chip away. As the documentary notes, "There is only one winner in the story of Citizen Kane, and that's the film...In its 55th year, the movie is still a marvel, a circus of camera wizardry enlivening the story of a failure: a powerful man who loses it all. The young...
...government are the some 24,000 Muslims unaccounted for in 3 1/2 years of Balkan war. Many are believed to have been executed by Serbs and burried in mass graves near Srebrenica and the Lucovica mines, and Muslim officials hope to use Serb prisoners as a bargaining chip to learn the fate of those missing...
...decision, which is unanimous, is that the chips taste like chips. Not bad chips (each of us takes another) but not jim-dandy chips, either. Mouth feel, I would say, is about right. (This is no joke in the snack-food biz; successful mouth-feel technicians retire to seaside mansions.) Finger feel is pretty good too. Pick up a chip and your thumb and forefinger get greasy, just as nature intended...