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Death stalks me this year, distorting my sight. The death of my uncle overwhelmed my Christmas and my whole winter break. A friend's grandmother entered the hospital recently, weakened by a heart attack. And a long-dormant friendship rekindled soon after because of another death...
...prized, Skinner became the preferred troubleshooter. He managed the Administration's response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Eastern Air Lines strike, Hurricane Hugo and the 1989 California earthquake. Now Skinner's task is to cut dead weight from the White House staff and reawaken the Administration's dormant domestic policy and public relations operation. His appointment has worried some conservatives, who relied on Sununu to take their side in most fights. But Skinner, who has recently applied his charms to the right, insists that he is "as conservative as any conservative" and adds that "Bush's programs...
...success. I can have students go through an experimental paradigm in a lab, and they will show cracks under the stress of success. But there are also identifiable developmental influences that render some individuals more susceptible than others to self-sabotage. They are like a virus that lies dormant unless it's given the right environment to flourish. What causes the germ seed of the "healthy" narcissist to explode is really the success beyond which he or she can't comfortably proceed. It creates a level of arrogance at which some of them, such as a Gutfreund or Levine, cease...
...most years, about 30% of all credit cards are in the penalty box, stashed away by consumers who are trying to get their spending under control. But these aren't normal times. Right now, fully half of Citicorp's 30 million Visa and MasterCards are dormant. To chairman John Reed, that's worrisome. As the % largest issuer of such cards, Citicorp relies on the profit from those operations (last year: $610 million) to offset disasters like the depression in commercial real estate. As Americans get serious about whittling down their debts, the profit cushion for many bankers is getting uncomfortably...
...federal reservists marched into Bosnia-Herzegovina, shattering the tense calm of that buffer state with its explosive mixture of Serbs, Croatians and Slavic Muslims. When an oil refinery blew up under attack in Osijek, Croatia's key city in the east, it became clear that a region long dormant had loosed a volcano of passions...