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Israel's continuing refusal to acknowledge Arafat's olive branch presents him with a growing dilemma. While he had hoped that the start of a U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue last December would result in pressure on Israel, that has not happened...
...such reasons, a grim mood seemed evident among brokers last week. "If you can survive this period in the business," a Chicago moneyman said, "you can survive just about anything." But some managers saw no end to hard times. Mused Desmond Heathwood, chief investment officer of the Los Angeles branch of Boston Co., a unit of Shearson Lehman: "To have one's job will be the bonus this year...
...prevent students who want to join a military scholarship program from doing so. But there is no reason why such a program has to be affiliated with any educational institution. Any branch of the armed forces can afford to buy a building in Cambridge, teach courses in military theory and grant stipends to help students pay for a Harvard education. Harvard does not need to be involved at all, and it should...
However, the issue of homophobia in the military is not all that's at stake here. After all, the council's vaguely-worded constitution also prohibits what it terms "economic discrimination." And surely the current arrangement constitutes a violation of this principle: Harvard students enrolled in the Army branch of the ROTC program receive only 80 percent of the aid that their counterparts at MIT and other campuses do, and receive this aid for only three years instead of the full four...
...earliest visitors, the ancient Greeks and Romans, tried just about any concoction to have their way with her. A scholarly study on the subject by Alan Hull Walton tells us that the pith from the branch of the pomegranate tree and the testes of animals were considered hot stuff. So were certain foods. "If envious age relax the nuptial knot," advised the poet Martial, "thy food be scallions, and thy feast shallot." Onions were a favorite, as were garlic, pepper, savory, cabbage, asparagus, eggs, pineapples, snails ("but without sauce," cautioned the fastidious Petronius) and just about any creature dredged from...