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...moderate fan of Beavis and Butt-head, but I would never buy the cards," adds Ami N. Wynne '97. "I would say that the 10 to 13 range seems better suited for the cards. I don't think older people would buy them...
...same day Lipkowitz reported the conditionof her ceiling, Ami N. Wynne '97 was doing herlaundry when she heard "water gushing," andnoticed the floor was flooded...
...Oded Ben-Ami, a senior aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, allowed himself a sweet moment of repose the other day. Fresh from Washington, Ben-Ami relaxed with his family during the Jewish New Year, but he had no illusions about the new way of life awaiting Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have to fill in the blanks of their agreement in principle and figure out precisely how to transfer most government functions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the occupier to the occupied. "The game remains a puzzle of fitting hundreds of small details together," he said...
...Oded Ben-Ami, a spokesman for Rabin, watched it in wonder. "It was a handshake with someone who just a moment ago was the devil in person," he said, "and from now on is your partner in negotiation." The Lebanese daily L'Orient-Le Jour made a cooler but no less momentous assessment: "A prodigious moment this handshake, soberly, none too warmly exchanged between Rabin and Arafat, as if they were crushed by the terrible responsibility that their historic gesture condemned them to share." This is the stuff of modern diplomatic power. It is impulsive and ephemeral and can vanish...
Unfortunately, many of those who participated in the AMI offering were elderly churchgoers who had drawn funds from retirement savings. Remarked SEC attorney Spencer Barasch: "These people relied greatly on the expertise of AMI, and they will suffer." But not if their dollars went to help fund the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour, a television show that accounted for $13 million in bonds issued via an AMI subsidiary. Falwell, who has not been charged with any wrongdoing, promised to return "100% of principal" to investors...