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...Bolivia and the U.S. were blaring the news: in the first use of a U.S. military operation on foreign soil to fight drugs, Army Black Hawk helicopters, armed with .30-cal. machine guns and escorted by about 160 U.S. soldiers, had been flown into the South American jungle to assist Bolivian authorities in wiping out that country's production of cocaine...
...After earning an M.B.A. at the University of Chicago, she was recruited by Ohio's Standard Oil to help found Vista Ventures, a venture capital firm with headquarters in New Canaan, Conn. She helped finance the Liposome Co., an enterprise specializing in the production of small membranes used to assist in administering medications and one of the biotechnology industry's hottest success stories. One of Lobo's current favored companies is Biomagnetic Technologies in San Diego, which has developed diagnostic imaging equipment to read brain functions. Nonetheless, she predicts that "it will probably be another three to five years before...
...government we need," Cuomo says frequently, "but we insist on all the government we need." An elegant phrase, but hardly a coherent philosophy of governing. In practice, Cuomo rarely makes the distinction between only and all. What Cuomo will tell you, though, is that government has an obligation to assist the homeless, the infirm, the destitute, to serve the poor without ravaging the middle class. "I didn't come into this business to be an accountant," he says. "I came into this business to help people...
...doubt that, as Professor Hoffmann suggests, anyone was drafted to work for the OSS in World War II. In my letter, I clearly stated that scholars are under no obligation to assist the CIA. To say that American intelligence would be improved if scholars offered help if they as individuals so desire, is hardly comparable, as Professor Hoffmann implied, to advocating state sponsored propaganda. While I have no objections to being labeled a neo-conservative--though my political views, no less than Professor Hoffmann's, deny such easy categorization--references to unnamed "ideologues" who are willing to justify any means...
...NOTEBOOK Bayly finished with 18 saves...Pujols ended his Harvard career with 100 goals and 66 assists. Co-Captain Tom Corcoran finished with 94 goals and 33 assists...Corcoran led the Crimson in goals-scored this year with 32...McCaffrey was the assist leader with 17...Vita, who sported a newly grown beard Saturday, concluded his season with 178 saves and his career with 193 saves and 116 goals allowed...