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...normal year, late November is the time to break out the mittens, dig up those old packets of instant hot chocolate and invest in a stockpile of firewood. But this year, November 28 will be remembered as the day that Harvard students felt more inspired to sunbathe than to sleigh...
Friedman added that in order to get justice in Southern courts, defense attorneys often have "to dig up dirt" on judges and prosecuting attorneys, so they can use it as collateral against them...
Overleverage doesn't necessarily lead to the poorhouse. Some companies have been able to dig themselves out. Santa Fe Southern Pacific, which borrowed $4 billion to elude a hostile takeover bid in 1987, managed to repay the debt last March, four years ahead of schedule. The Chicago-based company sold its timber business as well as its pipeline, construction and leasing divisions. Media and entertainment giant Time Warner, which has nearly $11 billion in borrowings, hopes to grow its way out of debt without selling off assets. Says N.J. Nicholas, co-chief executive: "We can live with debt. It only...
Most grandparents, however, dig in and make the best of a difficult situation. Two years ago, after 2 1/2-year-old Mitchell was left in their care, Shirley and Charles Gates of West Waynesville, N.C., reluctantly set aside their plans to buy a camper and spend their retirement hunting and fishing. "When we first got the baby," says Shirley, "it was really hard on me and Paw-paw." They remain angry at their daughter, who, Shirley says, pays no support and rarely visits. But the Gateses have found their grandson a constant joy and challenge. "It's been worth it," says Shirley...
...long ago, Jackson went to Harvard to lecture, and he asked his audience if the university was educating people "to go home, not necessarily where they came from, but to some place where they can dig in and support meaningful things, not just upward mobility." Jackson got no firm answer, nor did he expect one. He carries the question with him wherever he travels to make people think again about what they may have lost and what they really treasure. He seeks a new generation that can find and grasp the "great and priceless privilege" that Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps...