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...never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works. He decorticated the Third Reich, cheese fanciers, gossip columnists and the Hollywood star system with equal and total frenzy. Since the foaming manias of The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate, Condon's fine, random wrath has aged until it is nothing more than irritability. Once he could have picked up the Republican and Democratic parties by their tails and swung them around his head like a couple of dead cats, as he tries...
...discouraged at Twin Oaks, and all drugs, including marijuana, are banned. So is television, which is considered a cultural poison. "We decided that we just weren't strong enough to stand up to television," says Kat Griebe, one of Twin Oaks' charter founders and, at 40, one of the oldest members. "Its powerful message is that of middle-class American values, which we reject?a high level of consumption, streamlined cosmetic standards of beauty, male dominance, the use of violence as a problem solver, and the underlying assumption that life should be a constant state of titillation and excitement. Life...
...served as Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature for three decades. One of his biggest contributions to the understanding of the ancients started by chance in 1948: he stumbled across some neglected tablets in the Iraq Museum. Eventually he identified them as one of the world's oldest known body of laws-the Akkadian Code of Eshnunna. Goetze translated the code, which predates the 3,700-year-old Code of Hammurabi by more than 150 years. It showed that price controls were used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom and that criminal penalties were carefully spelled...
That was last month. Now things are returning to normal, with the girls once more patrolling the streets. Still, the midsummer thunderstorm about the world's oldest profession raises anew one of the world's oldest questions: What can or should society do about the sale...
Died. Jayant Madhvani, 49, East African industrialist and, as the oldest of Uganda's Madhvani brothers, head of one of Black Africa's largest family-owned and locally based corporate empires; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. After the death of his father in 1958, Madhvani, an Indian, became the main driving force behind 63 companies worth $56 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Credited with building East Africa's first steel mill, the soft-spoken Hindu also served as globetrotting eco-nomic ambassador for the region. "We don't want history...