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GENEVA WAS BRIMMING WITH HOLIDAY cheer as a small convoy of cars set out for France. The travelers looked more respectable than any ordinary party of vacationers. In their four cars, the 16 French and Swiss nationals included three little girls, two policemen, a Geneva psychotherapist and the son of a famed European former skiing champion...
...mindlessly optimistic tripe from Hollywood. But in 1995 many of them found moral instruction, even art, in mindlessly pessimistic tripe--grotty little films about how rotten life is. If it wasn't the self-destructive singer in Georgia, it was a moony, whiny Priest or some horny, joyless Kids. Cheer up, folks; life ain't that bad. Only movies...
...move that stunned marketwatchers and brought some much needed holiday cheer to consumers, the Federal Reserve Board lowered by a quarter percentage point the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge one another on overnight loans, from 5.75 percent to 5.5 percent. The key rate effects borrowing costs for consumers. The cut was announced after the highly anticipated meeting of the central bank's Federal Open Market Committee today. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan noted that a main reason for the reduction is that inflationary pressures are easing. This was the Fed's second interest rate cut this year...
...Decorations bring cheer to an otherwise dreary life at Harvard," says Chip W. Hellar...
...were piped over the loudspeakers, the crowd piled into five tents where names were picked from revolving bins, one for each level of housing: Estate, Village, Cottage, Townhomes and Apartments. There was an extra bin for the rentals. The occasional cheer went up as the winners were read out. People whose number came up early got first crack at signing a contract with one of the approved builders and choosing a house style: Classical, Victorian, Colonial Revival, Coastal, Mediterranean or French. (Alas, nothing resembling the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.) The first 350 units are scheduled to be occupied by June...