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Last week's hotel bill brouhaha made Miamians wonder if the Saudi spending spree was over. The hoteliers say Mohammad recently bounced 37 checks, and on Thursday they got a judge to impound his jewelry and cars still at the Diplomat. Several indulgent creditors, including a taxi company with unpaid fares totaling $157,000, were fretful, and Mohammad's construction crew walked off the job. But Rasheed, the family spokesman, was reassuring. "Everybody will get his money. Everybody will be happy, kiss the hand and come to work again.'' -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by William McWhirter/Miami
Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
...brouhaha at Harvard Law School over affirmative action
When members of the city's Rent Control Board sit down Wednesday to consider allowing condominium conversion in buildings on Linnaean St. and Washington Ave., they could defuse or aggravate the housing brouhaha currently boiling in the city council...
...With the brouhaha over investment policy expected to continue into next year, Putnam will continue to be the key actor. As Treasurer, it is his responsibility to assess what restrictions on University investments are "feasible" in light of the University's overall objectives. How much pressure he chooses to exert may well determine the outcome of the current review...