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...trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen Konigsburg (Woody "Allen...
Though Japanese women are among the best-educated women in the world, they are, by Western standards, second-class citizens in their own country. Traditional values discourage women from appearing outspoken or independent- minded and demoralize those who try to climb the political or business hierarchies. Only one-fourth of major Japanese corporations have any women at all in the middle-management or higher ranks. In government, women constitute less than 1% of management-level bureaucrats and about 6% of the 764 Diet members. The average woman's annual income amounts to only half that...
...scheme ripped from the pages of John le Carre. Not long after the end of World War II, Democratic Party elders tapped a malleable Yalie and gave him orders for life: move to Texas, infiltrate the Republican Party and start a long, quiet climb to power. His mission: destroy the G.O.P. from within. Mastering the finer points of mesquite barbecue and duck-blind repartee, the spy rose through the ranks, performing minor tasks for party leaders along the way. Years later, just as planned, the deep-cover agent finally became President...
Since August KidsPort has kept thousands of little fingers and big imaginations busy by offering earthbound youngsters an opportunity to explore everything from the dynamics of flight to the clothes people wear. A Rocky Mountain climb on a special surface and a jump into Colorado's famed powder snow (actually 60,000 white balls) have also let the sports-minded unwind...
Worse, the chill wind of recession is in the air. Overall European growth will slow as oil prices climb. Paul Horne, the chief international economist for Smith Barney in Paris, points to recent protests in France over cheap meat imports from E.C. partners as signs of a potential "backlash against increased competition, industrial as well as agricultural, that can be expected." Nor will rising oil prices affect all E.C. countries equally. The dislocations triggered by the gulf crisis are bound to test the strength of European cohesion...