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...facts in the case of Author Georges Simenon, 81, are not in dispute. He has written more than 400 books, some 220 under his own name, including the immensely popular Inspector Maigret novels. The native-born Belgian had scarcely launched his career in Paris during the 1920s when the money began rolling in; royalties and subsidiary rights reaped from the movies and TV made him wealthy many times over. His personal life has not matched the success of his career. A first marriage lasted some 20 years and produced one son. When his secretary-mistress became pregnant, Simenon looked...
Since 1980, the program has won $113.3 million in financial support from Congress. In January, however, the inspector-general's office of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) issued a controversial 40-page report that took a searching look at the reform and concluded politely that it had had "mixed results." Among other things, the audit claimed that many of the 317 major farm cooperatives created under Phase 1 are "not financially viable." The future of those plantations, which produce mainly coffee, cotton and sugar, seems "bleak," said the report, without additional government assistance. As of September...
...Russian middle class, it is Gorky's most Chekhovian work. It follows, without an obvious plot, the lives and loves of the summer folk who spend their vacations, as always, in cottages in the woods. Sellars, 26, who came to national attention with a production of The Inspector General at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard while he was still an undergraduate there, has said in interviews that Summerfolk's very sprawl and lack of discipline struck him as quintessentially American. He believed that with only a few word changes, it could...
...dance and wallflower vignettes. A forlorn aristocrat fishes his monocle out of a champagne glass, fixes it in his eye, and one bubbly tear slides down his face. A 1930s hard-boiled hero, based on the young Jean Gabin, reappears 20 years later as the aging Gabin's Inspector Maigret. There is plenty of verve here but little charm; the relentless closeups favored by Director Ettore Scola (A Special Day, La Nuit de Varennes) turn every character into a comic-pathetic gargoyle. It is left to the nostalgic sound track to evoke the emotions of a nation...
Crosby acquired his management insights on the factory floor. Though trained as a podiatrist, he never practiced and began work in 1953 as a $75-a-week inspector of radar equipment. He soon questioned the prevailing wisdom that preventing errors was a hopeless goal. By 1961, while a quality manager of the Pershing missile program at Martin Marietta, he conceived the Zero Defects policy, which persuaded workers to sign no-flaw pledges and recognized those with perfect performances...