Word: defers
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...dealing with an even more formidable separatist. Leaders of the Parti Quebecois are already trying to revive their push for secession under the banner of Lucien Bouchard, the movement's charismatic co-leader. Since Parizeau's decision to leave Tuesday, at least two potential replacements have said they would defer to a Bouchard candidacy. The Parti Quebecois, which took power in Quebec last year, chooses its leader through a vote of all 150,000 members. TIME's William McWhirter reports that Bouchard "goes back to Ottawa as the leader of the opposition party vowing to keep the cause alive. Prime...
Meanwhile, Rudenstine said he hoped that the education lobby could find a way to "reconceptualize" the budget to defer interest payments for graduate students still in school. According to Rudenstine, current Congressional cuts would make graduate in-school interest the "single largest hit there...
Rogue trader Nick Leeson won't be coming home to England anytime soon. British authorities now say that they will defer to Singapore's jurisdiction and will not extradite Leeson to Britain. As a trader in Singapore, Leeson allegedly caused the collapse of the venerable 232-year old Baring Bros. Bank. TIME's Michael Brunton reports from London: "Leeson has run out of options. Now he's in for a long trial and a longer sentence in Singapore. I guess the David Frost interview didn't work." Leeson is currently being held in a German prison awaiting a decision...
There's a beautiful scene between two intimate friends, Ma?ta (Elodie Bouchez) and Francois (Gael Morel), in Andra Tachina's Wild Reeds, set in the south of France in 1962. The two teens have kept company partly to defer any plunge into sexual commitment. Now Francois confesses he has had sex with someone else. Maite is shocked. But with another boy -- and she feels a kind of relief. As Smoke Gets in Your Eyes plays soulfully, she pulls Francois into a slow-dance clinch. Then, abruptly, the Beach Boys' Barbara Ann comes on. The two start jitterbugging, Maite breaks...
Gina Grant graduated from the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School yesterday, and may defer entering college for a year, according to her uncle...