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...both an opportunity and a problem for us,'' says Jorge Bustamente, president of Tijuana's Colegio de la Frontera Norte and a professor at Indiana's University of Notre Dame. ``We make money from our proximity, but the power is asymmetrical. The U.S. is boss. It calls the shots, and it wants us on our knees before it will deal with us.'' Adds former Foreign Minister Fernando Solana: ``I congratulate Clinton for being clever. He is helping U.S. investors who made a fortune on Mexico's high- interest rates, but now do not want to assume that risk...
Allen was the pianist on a live date recorded with vocalist Betty Carter that was released on Verve this summer. The album, Feed the Fire, is titled after a Geri Allen composition--a rare sign of tribute from Dame Carter, who is widely known as one of the toughest and most critical taskmasters in jazz. Carter's tyrannical ways were amply demonstrated in her own appearance at the Regattabar last year, when she lambasted her bass player on stage for not getting the changes right. Unlike the poor bassist, Allen was not cowed by Carter's aggressiveness. The level...
...city's children. His opera Sarajevo was performed in London in August. A political allegory with biting satire, Evropa takes place on a drifting ocean liner. Its anxious young passengers want to know their destination, but alas, the ship is being steered by Madame Europa, a faded grande dame who is more absorbed in the greatness of her past than by the treacherous rocks that lie ahead...
...team tournament which will include several nationally ranked teams, including eighth-ranked Texas Christian and fifteenth-ranked Notre Dame...
...Saturday afternoons in the fall, the routine would change slightly. Notre Dame football was an all-consuming passion in The Bunker, and heaven help he who transgressed against its commandant on third down in the fourth quarter with the Irish in trouble. Was a television ever broken? I'm not sure, although I know glass shards of some sort were known to find the carpet (even before halftime) during the tense ones. In little time, I became a passionate Notre Dame fan, although my reasons were more defensive and selfish than those of the average Golden Domer, I suppose...