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...that is the best it can boast. Perhaps its beginner status makes it less polished, but there is something almost confrontational about Barillari. You feel reluctant to buy anything, but guilty if you don't, as four different salespeople watch you all the time...
...Atlanta is trying again. Nearly 5,000 boosters braved a thunderstorm last week to celebrate the reopening of Underground after a 2 1/2-year renovation that cost $142 million, including $85 million in city-backed bonds. The complex, decorated in turn-of-the-century style, will eventually boast 140 stores, restaurants and nightclubs -- as well as dozens of security guards meant to reassure the suburbanites and tourists who are essential to the downtown's revitalization. Critics charge that the city's money could be better spent elsewhere. Protesters disrupted Mayor Andrew Young's opening address by chanting "Atlanta keeps the homeless...
...Government in January, Pierce pointed proudly to his three Government decorations and declared, "President Reagan asked me to reduce the size and cost of Government and at the same time try to take care of the most needy. I think I did that very well." The cynicism of that boast has become glaringly evident. Since the release of a HUD inspector general's report in April, the agency has become the target of inquiry by two congressional committees into charges of influence peddling. The Justice Department has launched a nationwide probe into the possible theft of as much...
...four living ex-Presidents -- Reagan, Carter, Ford and Nixon -- Reagan alone can boast of an exit from power in good health, both political and physical, and after two full terms of general peace and prosperity. What's more, he even liked...
...Universities can--and do--boast of having heads of state, such as Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir P. Bhutto '73, as graduates. By inviting Bhutto to be this year's Commencement speaker, Harvard has shown that academic excellence is not its sole concern. National and international prominence, it seems, is equally important...