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...Reporter James Wooten points out in a recent cover story in the Washington Post magazine recalling that unsuccessful interrogation, both the question and the Senator's coy answer will be analyzed countless more times. The punditry should reach a crest this week as journalists almost everywhere take yet another look at Kennedy and his intentions. The reason for the outpouring: it will be exactly ten years since a car driven by Kennedy plunged off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, next to Martha's Vineyard, and a young female aide drowned...
...Then, the first round of OPEC price hikes helped kick off a global recession that quickly became the longest and deepest that the U.S., for one, had experienced since the 1930s. Moreover, when the oil price explosion occurred, the industrialized nations were all lined up at the crest of a simultaneous boom. They all skidded into recession together, and many smaller countries slid down with them. Largely to pay their bloated oil bills, the less developed countries (LDCs) borrowed heavily from public institutions like the International Monetary Fund and from private banks in developed nations, notably the U.S. Since...
WITH COVER STORIES in both Downbeat and Musician and a new album (NiceGuys) on ECM--the label that has successfully promoted the likes of Keith Jarrett and Pat Methaney--the AEC is riding a new crest of public interest and acceptance. But as Lester Bowie comments, there has always been a receptive audience for the group's work, and the size of that audience is of no great consequence. The music which so excites critics today is essentially unchanged since the days when the Art Ensemble played for groups of ten or fifteen devotees back in Chicago. Through years...
Harvard, meanwhile, is riding the crest of its seven game winning streak and its rise to the number one ranking in New England for the first time in years. The Crimson is ranked twelfth nationally...
...where he has been the international chief for a series of American banks: initially Manufacturers Hanover, then First Boston, now Blyth Eastman Dillon−INA. He is one of those multinational deal makers who live in Concordes, four-star hotels and mahogany-walled counting houses. He always rides a crest in good times and bad, making money −much money−despite a few sour deals among all the bonanzas...