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...number of readers look askance at some of the words used to depict Wall Street's new gunslinger, the quantitative analyst ((COVER STORIES, April 11)). Sam Kirzner of Edison, New Jersey, writes, "Supernerds, high-water-pants alert, idiots savants -- these descriptions sound like sour grapes from people who can't understand the tools of today's market." Randall E. Sekeres of Atlanta believes we aimed "for the cheap laugh." Chris Danielson of Houston wonders, "How can you endorse the use of the word nerd? Granted, the , supernerds may be engaging in unusual business practices, but that is no reason...
...love the bows the couturiers take at the end of their shows. Yves Saint Laurent's are the best. He often walks out warily, as though he hadn't been exposed to strong light for a while. At last month's ready-to-wear show, however, he was alert and effusive to his adoring models...
...Angeles-based AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf, pre-eminent in its field in 1990 thanks to a three-year, $432,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. AESD barnstormed the country, giving three-day training classes to hundreds of deaf activists on how to alert people to this "new" disease. They were a hit in 25 cities and < were invited to 37 more. But the grant was not renewed. AESD had failed, like most other deaf AIDS organizations, to fulfill a basic requirement for steady government funding: a tally of the infected. Until recently, deaf activists...
...third and supposedly climactic round of high-level talks between North Korea and the U.S., to discuss trading diplomatic recognition and economic aid for the North's full compliance with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and other Western demands, was scratched. South Korea put its 633,000 troops on alert. Seoul also accepted an American offer to deploy 48 Patriot missile launchers to defend against North Korean Scud missiles and announced that it had resumed planning for the Team Spirit military exercises with the U.S., suspended in February to placate the North. Washington weighed whether to supplement...
...ALERT. Of 24 male performers who either presented or won awards at last week's Academy Awards ceremony, seven -- 29% -- didn't wear ties. Two recently fashionable items were also not in great evidence on stage: red ribbons and faux-brainy eyewear...