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Twice a week after school and on Saturday mornings, 16 students from other area schools also receive help from the program. The Harvard volunteers bring them to the West End House Boys and Girls Club where they tutor them in English and math for about two hours. The program also seeks to open the refugee children's eyes to the world around them, by taking them on field trips--to receive Christmas gifts from Flynn or to visit the Children's Museum. "The amount of information transmitted is not as important as the appreciation of learning," said Richard Louie...
...epic four-year legal battle last month by agreeing to pay Pennzoil $3 billion, Texaco seemed ready to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings, and the company's executives thought they had every reason to celebrate. But the men who wear the star may have to put away the champagne and bring back the lawyers. Last week the Internal Revenue Service told Texaco that it may face a stunning back-tax bill: $6.5 billion...
...disc jockey Adrian Cronauer, who is stationed in Saigon as U.S. involvement escalates in 1965. An iconoclast whose humorous broadcasting style has won him the admiration of the common grunts and the top brass alike, Cronauer must nevertheless face the displeasure of his immediate superiors as he tries to bring truth, integrity, and rock n' roll to the fighting...
Hamilton said he would work to persuade colleagues that by voting against Contra aid, lawmakers would be casting their lot with a political process that could bring an end to the region's long conflicts...
...commission's proposal would bring under one master two radically different kinds of markets. An investor who buys stock gets tangible shares of a corporation, which can be held for the long term. The person who buys or sells a stock-index future, in contrast, is making a short-term bet on which direction the overall market is going to go in the near future, usually a month or less. Thus the Chicago Merc is used primarily by brokerage firms and speculators seeking quick profits, and by money managers who want to hedge their portfolios against losses in the stock...