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Steve F. Gregurek '92 said he thought it was raining when he heard "a crackling noise like the sound of sticks breaking" outside his second-story room in Cabot House. A fire alarm roused him from his studies minutes later, he said. "I looked out the window and all I could see were orange flames...
Howe said that his alarm over Souter's silenceon abortion was the primary impetus to undertakethe signing, which they also hoped would increasecampus awareness of the issue...
Amid the cries of alarm, some experts caution against equating the banking industry's problems with the thrift disaster. Overall, banks in the U.S. earned $26 billion last year, while S&Ls lost more than $19 billion. "I disagree strongly with the notion that the problem in the banking industry resembles the early stage of the S&L debacle," says Thomas McCandless, who follows the industry for Goldman, Sachs. "The regulatory environment has been much more rigorous than the loosey-goosey kind of overview that occurred in the S&L industry...
...week, the U.S. sailors are likely to be more impressed by the natural beauty of the surroundings than by the Soviet naval power on display in the harbor. There at her moorings is the Minsk, a helicopter carrier of a class that sent the Pentagon into a frenzy of alarm in the 1970s. It is about half the size of the U.S. flattops on duty in the gulf. Nearby are a number of formidable-looking destroyers and guided-missile cruisers, but they are outnumbered by a long row of decrepit submarines literally rusting away at dockside and good for little...
This September's first-year faces are a little more diverse, and the boxes, topped with computers and CD players, just a little different. No longer containing phonographs and wind-up alarm clocks, these boxes hide high-cost trinkets--the techno-toys of college...