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...most distressing part of Magic's return to the court is that the NBA and the Olympic Committee have bent over back-wards to accommodate him. And the Los Angeles Lakers have yet to officially take him off the injured reserve list--meaning that he has not officially retired...
...University is hell-bent on the notion that we will all learn more if we have students of diverse ethnicities, sexual preferences and socio-economic backgrounds everywhere--in the houses, in the dining halls and in the classrooms. Administrators, professors and students all bend over backwards to create a diverse atmosphere at Harvard...
...national treasure in foreign hands haunted the French last week as Swiss food conglomerate Nestle unwrapped a hostile bid to take over Source Perrier, France's bottled-water king and a company once deemed financially invulnerable. It was no solace that Italy's Agnelli group, which is bent on diversifying beyond automaker Fiat, was competing with Nestle for the rights to sell the famous little green bottles all over the world...
...depicts a nouveau-riche family, the Tarletons, who has made its fortune selling underwear. When the Polish aviatrix, Lina Szczepanowska, drops out of the sky and into their home, their apparently banal existence is disrupted. Besides a few tangential plot twists--such as the miscellaneous antics of a son bent on revenge, an oversexed daughter and an amorous Lord--the play is a drawing-room comedy and consists mainly of idle conversation...
Clinton's compromising bent also makes him appear at times to take both sides of a controversial issue. To cite the most prominent current example, he claims to be the only Democratic candidate to have backed George Bush early and unreservedly on the gulf war. But on Jan. 15, 1991, the war deadline, the Arkansas Gazette quoted him as saying that he agreed with the majority of Democrats in Congress who voted against the use of force and for longer reliance on sanctions...