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Whatever the cause, Harvard must learn from this coup de force and improve its conditioning and offensive production in a half-court set, in order to avoid any deja vu in the future...
...private-placement memo to Arab clients obtained by TIME contains an extremely bullish forecast on the first page: Saks was expected to produce an investment return of 25.9% a year, and was likely to be sold within four years. One reason Investcorp failed to repeat its Tiffany coup with Saks is that the $1.6 billion purchase price was $200 million to $300 million too high, according to several sources, including a former Investcorp executive with direct knowledge of the deal. "Kirdar wanted it badly," recalls this source, "and he said, 'Let's just do a bid that'll knock everybody...
...trying to straighten out the elderly woman's finances. In the second act, B and C become earlier incarnations of A, and the three--now all one woman, at different stages of her life--open up to each other, and to the audience. It is a brilliant coup de theatre, which first presents A from the outside and then allows us to view her from the inside...
...PREDICTIONS WERE STARK AND frightening. Opponents of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide foresaw serious consequences if the radical priest, ousted in a September 1991 coup d'etat, ever returned to power: rivers of blood would flow through the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and dozens of the regime's opponents would perish in barbarous "necklaces" of burning tires. The poverty-stricken nation would become a Marxist enclave and an enemy of the U.S. So how to explain that a year after Aristide and the country's first democratically elected government were returned to power...
...REFERRED TO U.S. STATE DEPARTment official Richard Holbrooke's "diplomatic coup" in negotiating the Serbs' promise to withdraw their heavy weapons from around Sarajevo. I'm sorry, but it's hardly a "diplomatic coup" when you bomb the hell out of people and they finally do what you tell them to do. I'm absolutely not taking sides, but semantics can be dangerous. Remember back when the Vietnamese people were being "pacified"? DARRELL HORN Winnipeg, Manitoba...