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...ALBERT QIAN -- San Jose, Calif...
...malady is not a constitutional convention or new tax laws. The country will be stable only when graft, nepotism and all forms of corruption are tossed into the waste bin. Arroyo has the makings of a great President if only she would act with faith, honesty and patriotism. Albert Tan Makati City, the Philippines...
Besides being the climax of the romance of the century, that famous speech marked the beginning of the public reign of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, the dark, angular, citrus-tongued siren for whom Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David had set aside his crown. She swiftly became the most discussed and written-about woman in the world, fawned over by fashion designers for her "perfect elegance," gushed over by gossip columnists and probed endlessly in tabloid serials, books and, eventually, TV dramatizations. The final chapter of her star-crossed love story--Or was it merely the tale...
Perhaps so, but the no-money-down concept has created an industry in which it is often more profitable to preach real estate investing than to practice it. The pioneers were Robert G. Allen, 37, and Albert Lowry, 58, who wrote rival best-selling books on the subject during the 1970s and early 1980s. An updated edition of Allen's Nothing Down zoomed back onto the best-seller lists last year. Offering dozens of financing tactics, Allen and Lowry were soon so much in demand that they formed companies and hired dozens of disciples to go out and preach...
...Soviets even decorated the corridor walls with framed photographs of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva under the neatly stenciled label AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS. Soviet officials offered daily briefings for news-starved correspondents. "I welcome you with all my heart to this press center," said the grayhaired Soviet propagandist Albert Vlasov with perhaps a trifle too much earnestness...