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This is the shape-shifting landscape of addict and alcoholic. The two terms mean in essence the same thing: a powerless dependence upon one drug or another, whether the chemical is legal or illegal. Here boundaries blur and melt. "Responsible" adults -- fathers, mothers, bankers, Senators, solid citizens -- become dangerous aliens. Their cars fly across the median in the middle of the night. The high began as a creamy indulgence and ends as a squalid necessity, a fix. The soul begins to die. It passes over into realms of the surreal and savage, into moral blackout and passivity...
...building projects have had to be postponed, but cannibalizing and improvising can make a lot of difference. Another major effect of the embargo has been to cut Iraq's ability to pay for its imports with oil revenues. Here, too, Saddam can find ways around the restrictions. For one thing, he confiscated some $1 billion in gold in the Kuwaiti treasury. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly been offering him credit. In addition, Saddam runs a police state that can easily squelch discontent about plunging living standards. Adding up all the guesses and intangibles, Western intelligence officials estimate that Saddam...
Evans is interested in politics and history, and he is expected to emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige...
...noble thing for a man to rescue his humble forebears from obscurity, to make something grand, even epic out of their lives. Barry Levinson, whose most recent films have been notable commercial successes (Good Morning, Vietnam; Rain Man), has been widely praised by reviewers for attempting a movie that tries to make something instructive out of his family's past. Avalon, which Levinson directed and wrote, is a handsome and conscientiously made film, tracing the modest fortunes and misfortunes of the Krichinskys, an extended family of Jewish immigrants in Baltimore, over some 50 years...
...thinking when that first popped out," Paul Simon says, sitting in the living room of his Manhattan duplex, watching an early moon come up over Central Park. " 'The cross is in the ball park.' The first thing I thought of was Billy Graham, or the Pope, or evangelical gatherings. But I came to feel what that's really about is the cross that we bear. The burdens that we carry are doable, they're in the ball park...