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Pair of Shues: The Columbia marching band rated Harvard the number-one cultural icon that Senator Jesse Helms will censor in the name of decency, but one of our most popular icons showed up at the Lions' den last Saturday. Elisabeth Shue '88-'90--the actress best known for her starring roles in Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting and The Karate Kid--braved the rain to watch her brother John and the men's soccer team take on Columbia. She said she was disappointed with John's limited playing time, but still plans to catch several games this season...
...crew. As best as I can tell, this so-called "sport" has four basic components...
...called the explosion a "wrongful, intentional act" and said it had found "foreign material" in the key gun barrel. The admirals theorized that a detonator had been placed between powder bags and that someone had rammed the bags more tightly than normal. Hartwig was, the Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another sailor...
Western Europe has turned in its best economic performance in 15 years. Stock markets are at record highs, company profits are surging, and a mood of optimism prevails as the Continent's businessmen discover a dynamism that many thought had long deserted the Old World. Look at London's vast Docklands, where a reborn city with elegant housing and sleek office buildings is rising from what was once a wasteland of derelict wharves and warehouses, the relics of Britain's mighty trading empire of yesteryear. Boats rush commuters up the Thames to the City, London's financial heartland and center...
Perhaps the best hope for the forests' survival is the growing recognition that they are more valuable when left standing than when cut. Charles Peters of the Institute of Economic Botany at the New York Botanical Garden recently published the results of a three-year study that calculated the market value of rubber and exotic produce like the Aguaje palm fruit that can be harvested from the Amazonian jungle. The study, which appeared in the British journal Nature, asserts that over time selling these products could yield more than twice the income of either cattle ranching or lumbering...