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...fellow Cantabrigian, the boy from MIT, said the U.N. should bow to us because we had clearly vanquished the Soviet Union in the Cold War and emerged the only remaining superpower. He compared the situation to a great battle in which a bear defeats an eagle, saving the world from the eagle's tyranny. The bear, he said, deserves to be honored after its victory...
Chances are that people in the later stages of the disease will have to stay on combination therapy the rest of their lives--assuming they can tolerate the often excruciating side effects, which range from diarrhea and fatigue to spasms, kidney stones and liver damage. They also have to bear in mind that they are probably still infectious and that eventually--perhaps in a few years, perhaps longer--their immune systems will probably once again collapse...
Even a lower-echelon dealmaker or trader could drown in this year's bonus pool, filled by the huge flow of investors' money into Wall Street and by auction-quality bidding for talent. "It's like Madonna or Michael Jordan," exclaims Alan ("Ace") Greenberg, chairman of Bear Stearns and one of the Street's franchise players. This year Ace scored bonuses, on top of his cheesy $200,000 base salary, adding up to $18,840,701 in cash, stock and what a proxy statement calls "other compensation," more than double the pedestrian $8 million he got last year. And that...
...fighting one another to pay up to $125,000--plus the proverbial bonus--annually to newly minted investment bankers. Do they deserve it? Wrong question. Money is the way Wall Street keeps score, and the industry has been running it up. "This is America," is the answer of Bear Stearns' Greenberg. "If they get it, they deserve...
...reveling friends. As the movies' most famous Latin lover since Valentino walks away, the girl smiles benignly. She might have been in the Trevi Fountain crowd last week, recalling an actor who displayed the foibles of modern man, and the grace and gravity with which one man can bear them...