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What fan of pay-per-view television duels could resist such an event? In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo! The kings of the high Cs will head a list of stars on Sept. 23, when a 25th-anniversary gala at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City is broadcast in a way usually associated with professional punch-'em-ups: live pay-per-view television...
Then there are the financial realities of modern journalism. Monstrous as the Moscow extravaganza was -- the TV networks couldn't resist sending their anchors, and CBS dispatched seven camera crews -- many news executives have concluded that they can no longer afford saturation coverage of all presidential trips. (The overall cost of just the press centers in Moscow and Kiev was $250,000.) The Associated Press sent 11 staff members on the trip, a third less than the number that covered the Reagan-Gorbachev summit...
...more than five times the rate for the general population. Idleness often leads to illicit activity. Local police arrested 1,914 juveniles in 1989; 158 of them were charged with violent crimes, 14 of those with murder. Yet every day young people like James beat the odds, resist the temptations and begin productive lives. Too often their success requires a heroic effort: by themselves, family members, dedicated teachers, social workers and concerned volunteers. A youngster who is not exceptional in some way -- or just plain lucky -- can fall through the cracks...
...Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who acquired control of B.C.C.I. for $1 billion last year, was still fuming because the clampdown shuttered the bank without warning just as he was planning to restructure it. "He will do nothing unless there is incredible political pressure that he simply cannot resist," says a highly placed Arab banker...
...Awadi understands that stability is unlikely if hereditary rulers resist legitimate pressures for change. "The trick now is not so difficult," he says. "We must make the regime more responsive and understanding, goals that would certainly be helped by increasing the voter rolls." And for whom would the newly enfranchised be most likely to vote? "Well," says al-Awadi, smiling, "I am not the most astute of politicians, but it would seem to me that those granted a certain right might well feel a strong preference for whoever is seen as having given it to them...