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...Henchman (or -woman): Oddjob, Jaws, Rosa Klebb--this is a job for grotesques. Gottfried John as a rogue Russian general looks weird all right, but he has no unique killing skills--just a sneer and a routinely itchy trigger finger. Richard Kiel, you are missed...
...into the dna of the cells they infect. Thus once it takes effect, a retrovirus infection--unlike those of viruses that cause measles, smallpox and any number of other diseases--is permanent. While some retroviruses are benign, others can strike without warning. Some remain hidden for years, only to trigger disease later in life when the immune system starts to flag...
Kurz fails to elucidate her position on how all these reforms would be carried out. Instead she repeatedly asks for a reexamination of the facts. She leads us to expect a detailed program of reform instead of vague catch phrases which trigger the public's progressive nerve. Despite this lack of clarity, Kurz answers ambitious questions in her search for a comprehensive analysis of sociological facts in divorced mothers' lives...
Sharply raising tariffs might, in the short run, protect some jobs in industries facing import competition. But even if these tariffs didn't trigger a full-scale trade war, they would probably inspire counter-tariffs that would cost American jobs in export industries. To point this out, says Buchanan, is to counsel "fear and timidity...
...year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...