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...time, those long-silent voices sent their relatives in the U.S. into shouts of joy and expressions of affection as the broken threads of family life were tentatively rejoined. At 2:30 a.m., Alice Metrinko picked up her phone in Olyphant, Pa., to hear her son Michael, 34, say, "Hi, Mom." They chatted for 45 minutes. She asked why he had seemed to be hiding from the TV cameramen in Algiers. Well, he said, his shirt was ragged and dirty, and his trousers had no cuffs. He had lost about 40 Ibs. but insisted, "Oh, Mother, I feel fine...
...took the phone. "Hi, baby, how are you?" She ticked off a list of friends who had called from around the world, then asked: "Did I tell you that you got a promotion? Are you excited?" She asked her husband about the hostages' treatment by their Iranian captors and listened now with a grimmer face. "We'll talk about it when I get home," Gary Lee replied...
...kosai-hi has its critics. The government earlier this year proposed to levy stiff taxes on corporate expenditures but then relented under pressure from the business community. Its final solution: tax the portion of kosai-hi that exceeds a corporation's entertainment expenditures in the previous year...
That is hardly a radical solution, but kosai-hi supporters explain that the business of Japan is business. Says Tentmaker Nohmura: "A three-martini lunch is fine, but why not make it four or five? Nobody will question the bill so long as it helps business...
...award for the most diffident title of an autobiography hi the past decade should go to Author Graham Greene. A Sort of Life (1971) did not exactly cry out "buy me" when it hit the bookstores, though thousands of Greene fans snapped it up anyway. They were treated to an odd, beguiling performance. The author coolly portrayed his childhood and youth as a succession of blunders, chiefly his own: he tripped over his own psychoanalysis at age 16, fiddled unsuccessfully with Russian roulette as a way out, failed at writing a play, botched nearly everything he touched. The self-deprecation...