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There are two exceptions. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's Rough Strife is a shrewd and sensitively contoured exploration of young marriage and pregnancy. It appears in both the O. Henry and Best collections. Julie Hecht's I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a stylishly intelligent and deceptively lighthearted evocation of a woman's fantasies about Elvis Presley. Hecht strikes the right balance of irony, nostalgia and affection for a time when Presley and the short story itself were still in full bloom...
...After some 65 years of Jewish immigration, greatly accelerated during the era of Nazi persecution, the United Nations General Assembly votes to abolish the 1920 British mandate and partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs reject the plan, and civil strife worsens...
...regime tirelessly proclaims that it will never again sell the 5.5 million bbl. per day that made prerevolutionary Iran the second largest oil producer in the 13-member OPEC cartel. On the other hand, the country's strife-battered economy desperately needs the hard foreign money that petroleum brings in. Since the Khomeini government has not yet figured out what its revenue needs will be, NIOC has been unable to gauge how much oil it will have to pump. In the uncertainty, Iranian authorities have been grabbing projected export figures out o the air, with semiofficial guesstimate ranging from...
Gold has always had a particular fascination for Old World investors, who have learned from grim experience that wars, revolutions and political strife can demolish less durable forms of investment. In France, the lust for gold remains as strong today as it was nearly two centuries ago when the National Assembly tried to spend its way to prosperity by issuing 400 million units of a paper currency called the assignat. Within five years, 50 billion of the worthless scraps were circulating, gold had jumped 600 times in value, and hoarding proliferated, even though the government made efforts to deal...
...panel planned the trip last September and has not met since the recent strife began between China and Vietnam, Horner said, adding the group had planned a meeting in Washington last weekend but cancelled it due to the snow...