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...Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) reported its findings on how this first wave of bailouts was handled. Among its conclusions: the transactions were so poorly designed and generous that they allowed investors to reap billions that could have been saved had Congress and the Reagan-Bush Administration been willing to cough up more money up front...
Angry police officials admit using radar but deny the speed-trap charge. If the class-action lawsuit is successful, the city will have to cough up the cash and the state will have to subtract at least one moving violation from the records of every driver nabbed along that stretch of the highway. "What can I tell you?" says Franceschi. "They got me three times in two years...
That leaves families worrying constantly about priorities. Heat or cough medicine? Books for school or shoes? "You lead a simple life," says Father John Seymour of Our Lady of Victory Church in Compton, Calif., where many of his parishioners face the hard choices every day. "Your main recreation is television. You eat a lot of rice, pasta, potatoes and beans, maybe some green vegetables. You take the bus, or you kind of carpool it, riding with someone and helping with the gas. If you're pregnant, you don't begin prenatal care until your seventh, eighth or ninth month, because...
...cancer or diabetes. Apart from a small number of relentlessly exploited Ryan White-like exceptions, the overwhelming majority of sufferers get AIDS through some voluntary action: sex or drug abuse. You don't get AIDS the way you used to get TB, by having someone on the trolley cough in your face. You don't get it the way you get, say, brain cancer, which is through some act of God that we don't understand...
...acting empyrean, in George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with her lover...