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...wife and I were very pleased to see the article on Dracula. We met almost under the shadow of Vlad Tepes' birthplace on one of the first Dracula tours, and it was love at first bite...
...Supreme Court ruling, however, is likely to discourage civil rights activists from filing, or prevent them from winning, new antibias cases asking for retroactive seniority for large groups of workers going back to the date of original hire. It also casts a shadow over new seniority systems, benefiting minorities, that have been negotiated between companies and unions; when those contracts come up for renegotiation, white unionists may argue that there is no court compulsion to keep the new systems. Some lawyers predict that another effect of the ruling will be to prompt a flood of "reverse discrimination" suits by white...
...soaring energy costs, many Third World countries have been forced to borrow voraciously from big banks, notably in the U.S. Now, that rising mountain of debt is casting an ominous shadow across the international banking scene. A growing number of monetary experts, bank regulators and economists are concerned about the ability of some less developed countries (LDCS) to pay off. They worry that a series of defaults could severely jolt the banking systems of the U.S. and other major lending countries-and perhaps imperil the Western economies...
...there did remain a need for a fuller, totally accurate account of his life. As Nabokov told Field, "The first biography, no matter what comes after, casts a certain shadow on the others." It is characteristic of Nabokov's precision and fastidiousness that he would like to arrange those shadows. Says Field: "He was defending his life. I was defending my task and my independence...
After 40 years, Novelist Eric Ambler, 68, has traded in the cloak and dagger for a trust fund and pocket calculator. Ambler's 15 earlier tales of espionage and intrigue created a shadow world of border crossings and doublecrosses that was both distinctly his own and widely (and successfully) imitated. Such younger writers as John Le Carré and Len Deighton are firmly in the Ambler tradition. The Siege of the Villa Lipp tries a new route. The most imaginative shady deals, it says, are no longer concocted by world-weary agents and conniving government bureaucrats...