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...item in the trade newspapers, except for a striking fact. One company--and one man--stood to gain more than anyone else from the exercise in U.S. trade pressure. The man is Carl Lindner, 76, a Cincinnati, Ohio, real estate, insurance and banana tycoon who likes to boast of his friendships with U.S. Presidents and sometimes blusters about what his political connections can do for him. For more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner, whose empire is worth an estimated $13 billion...
...innocuous parts of Usenet with its race baiting. Members claim to have emptied out half a dozen forums already, including, improbably, alt.fan.barry-manilow and alt.food.dennys. "If you want an organization which makes things happen, visit our victims and learn first-hand what kind of a group we are," they boast at their World Wide Web site, which features an image of a burning cross. "CLOC is clearly on the forefront of the great war for Aryan domination of the Internet...
Yale University is not a profit-making institution. It can't boast of vast stock gains that it should be sharing with its students and employees. Its endowment is roughly one-third the size of Harvard's. To attract bright graduate students (especially when competing with Harvard), it must already offer financial aid at the bounds of its capabilities. Not only does GESO not have a case for unionization, but it wouldn't stand to gain much even if it succeeded...
...winter holidays near and most students undertake rigorous exam schedules (except for Harvard), the hockey schedule slows down. League action will include only two games until the Auld Lang Syne tournament at Dartmouth over winter break (December 29-30), which should boast solid competition between league opponents Cornell, Northeastern and host Dartmouth. ECAC STANDINGS OVERALL ECAC Team W L T W L T UNH 10 1 0 5 0 0 Northeastern 7 4 1 5 0 0 Brown 5 2 1 2 0 1 Providence 5 4 0 2 1 0 Dartmouth 7 4 0 2 1 0 Princeton...
...Russian government announced that troops would begin patrolling railway stations as the country nears December 17 elections that boast a complicated lineup of 43 parties and 2,700 candidates. TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich reports that the government worries that Chechen rebels will try to disrupt the voting with bombings as part of their pledge to bring the Chechen war to Moscow. "The government made a very bad mistake, With Russian troops still in Chechnya, they decided to go ahead with not only national elections but also with local elections. The rebel fighters are not going to be very happy with...