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...four-week stay in 1987, the Argentine journalist had already asserted his support, as a Latin American socialist, for Cuba's right to sovereignty, while also declaring his hatred, as a former political prisoner of the Argentine military, of totalitarianism in all its forms. Opposing predispositions would cancel each other out, leaving him in a state of perfect neutrality...
...fall, with the legacy of council incompetence and apathy at the top of their minds, one-sixth of Harvard undergraduates just said no to the council. More than 1000 students took the time to find that little line on their term bills which gives $16.67 to the council, and cancel their "donation." When you consider that very few first-year students even knew that they were funding the council, this figure is remarkable...
...Mackintosh announced that English actor Jonathan Pryce would reprise is starring role as a Eurasian pimp in the Broadway version of the much heralded London musical. The Actor's Equity Association and several members of the theater community opposed Mackintosh's casting decision and in response Mackintosh threatened to cancel the show...
...approved, money for it had to be set aside. The practice horrified financial advisers who thought the cash should be invested to earn interest, but when oil prices broke and the kingdom's oil income plunged to $20 billion annually or less, Fahd, then King, did not have to cancel any projects...
...today would save us from $50 oil in a few years, why pay that extra $11 to oil producers? Why not buy the oil for $10, slap on an $11 tax and pocket the difference ourselves? That would raise about $40 billion a year -- just about enough to cancel the budget summit. (Last month's crisis. Remember?) A tax on imports alone would raise half that, allowing domestic producers to keep the difference. Yet the policy of two Republican administrations -- read their lips -- has been that it is better for the money to go into the treasury in Riyadh than...