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...hours before dawn one morning last week, a lanky, bearded young man in a rumpled blue jogging outfit dashed into Beirut's luxurious Summerland Hotel, overlooking the Lebanese coast. "I'm Charles Glass. I need a place to hide!" he fairly shouted to a receptionist. A U.S. television journalist who knows the Middle East well, Glass had been seized by Muslim Shi'ite terrorists 62 days earlier in one of Beirut's southern suburbs. Having somehow escaped, he had fled to the right place: the hotel is a heavily guarded sanctuary of Lebanon's Druze community, which is closely aligned...
...riches of The Songlines are varied and artfully stashed. Chatwin's physical journey over Australia's parched hide corresponds to his intellectual excursions, which are full of surprising turns. He travels light, living off his readings, his impressions and quotations from such diverse sources as Herodotus, Buddha, Heidegger and a Caribou Eskimo who said, "Life is one long journey on which only the unfit are left behind." What this furry philosopher ignored was that the unfit are frequently poets, abandoned to new perceptions. Like turning Australia into a metaphor for mind, thinly cultivated at the edges and wildly alive...
...their fellow televangelists faced constant reminders that their subjects are as widely noted for their business acumen as for their spiritual charisma. "To some critics," observes Chicago- based Correspondent Barbara Dolan, "these people appear to be almost comical with their emotional appeals. But that faith-healing showmanship can hide the mind of a Wall Street banker...
When Robert Holmes a Court comes calling, most corporate chiefs hide the company silver. A sly and extraordinarily patient Australian financier, Holmes a Court has built Bell Group, a $2 billion corporate empire that reaches from oil and gas interests near Tasmania to theaters in London's West End, by capturing troubled companies one at a time. Now the raider is circling around Texaco, and no one is entirely certain of his intentions...
...belief that students should be entirely locked out of the decision making process because of their inability to evaluate individual cases is reminiscent of North's belief that it was fine to hide covert foreign policy maneuvers even from Congress. But unlike Harvard professors deciding tenure, even North has to report to somebody--namely the Congress...