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...breathless clip of events in the Philippines last week left President Corazon Aquino with little room for herself, both figuratively and literally. A steady string of tasks, from selecting a Cabinet and ordering up various commissions to greeting diplomats and receiving journalists, crowded her time from the moment the Marcos family fled. Malacanang Palace proved unsuitable to receive the stream of visitors because Marcos loyalists had seeded the grounds with booby traps and looters had laid waste to the living quarters. Aquino was thus forced to continue operating out of the Manila building owned by her family, which, with...
...hoopsters pull off their second consecutive weekend sweep of Ivy foes. This time, the victims are Yale (avenging the earlier loss) and Brown (again). The Crimson shoots a season-high 63 percent from the floor against the Elis and then comes back to hit at a 64 percent clip in the second-half against the Bruins...
...last September finance ministers and central bankers of the U.S. and four other industrial powers--Japan, France, Great Britain and West Germany--launched a successful effort to push down the dollar. It has declined by about 12% since then, first at a gradual pace and now at a fast clip. Last week the dollar plunged to 181 yen, a seven-year low against that currency, and to 2.34 West German marks, a level not seen since...
...although I can't figure out precisely why. After all, the first half-hour is simply a reenactment of the TWA terrorist hijacking this past June. Having followed those events fairly closely, I didn't find the dramatization either surprising or suspenseful. When director Menahem Golan showed a clip of the pilot (Bo Svenson) being interviewed by reporters, he froze the footage to make certain that the audience would notice that this was the same image that had appeared on the covers of both Time and Newsweek during the actual hijacking...
Meanwhile, Harvard is connecting at a 75.8 percent clip from the charity stripe this year and was eighth in the nation in team percentage in the latest NCAA statistical report...