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...that the country owes for 1985. But at a time of extreme economic hardship and social unrest in Peru, García declared, the demands of foreign creditors would have to come second to the needs of his countrymen. Said he: "Let the peoples of the world hear me. President Alan García knows that Peru has a great and first creditor: its own people...
...dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters in cities ranging from Penang, Malaysia, to Budapest, Hungary. Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police in many areas chose to permit the effort. In New York, Landscape Artist Alan Gussow, who conceived the project, said he was "staggered" by the response. As she stenciled an image of herself and her husband near Wall Street in Manhattan, Artist Janna Josephson noted, "I want to make an impact, to startle people, to make them know that this could be ground zero...
...stations to run the spot, but few outlets other than the Cable News Network have agreed to give it time. The networks' position is questionable, critics argue, because daytime soaps and prime-time series like Dynasty routinely glamourize sex without suggesting its risks. Says Jeanne Rosoff, president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit research center: "Network program content is explicit to the point where one ABC-TV executive was quoted as saying, 'We are reaching the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed.' I can't see how the word contraceptive is going to shock anybody...
Well, to be honest, there are a few, and some of them have been busy writing books on the subject of male plumage. Boyer has the best one, called, simply, Elegance (Norton; 279 pages; $18.95). But there are also Alan Flusser's Clothes and the Man (Villard Books; 210 pages; $29.95), a volume so smoothly designed it should come with its own hanger; Personal Style by James Wagenvoord (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 222 pages; $16.95), which means to clue in all interested fellas not only about fashion but about many allied matters, from polishing glasses for a formal meal to packing...
...room mentality, though, is not the only reason for Montgomery's success. During the past four years, Weisel has raided Wall Street for top talent, sometimes regardless of athletic ability, by luring prospects with the opportunity to own stock in his brokerage by the bay. One important catch was Alan Stein, a Goldman Sachs veteran who transformed Montgomery's investment-banking division into a big-time operation that expects to underwrite almost $1.5 billion in securities this year, up 200% from...