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...regard them as political refugees, though their reasons for leaving Haiti sound similar to those of the Cuban refugees; both groups cite political persecution and extreme poverty. Carter said he was "greatly concerned" about the Haitians and had ordered federal agencies to "treat the Haitians in the same exact humane manner as we treat Cubans...
...friends, five Sherpa guides, 26 porters, a Tibetan pony and a yak. The group is making two treks, one a 60-mile walk reaching 15,000-ft. altitudes, the other a 50-mile hike at even higher levels. Exults McNamara: "For people who live at sea level, high altitudes exact their toll. You think the top of your head is going to separate from the rest of you. It is absolutely godawful in terms of headaches. But it's worth...
...services. It will receive $1.5 million when MacGregor takes over the company in July. If he does not finish his three-year appointment, up to $1 million will have to be returned. Depending on how well MacGregor performs, Lazard could receive up to $2.6 million more. The exact amount will be worked out by a panel, which includes two Lazard representatives...
...there a practical counterpart in relations among nations? At the end of World War II the U.S. wisely declined to exact vengeance upon Japan and Germany, but in stead helped to rebuild them, turning them at last, ironically, into the real economic victors of war. In the nuclear era, revenge may be too hairy a form of redress and self-gratification to be endured. Yet a cautionary super-revenge, in the latent form of a cataclysmic threat, is the governing principle of the nuclear age. Revenge, of course, some times achieves an air of respectability, of Realpolitik...
...color photograph showing a "Putt-Putt" miniature car raceway, empty and sheeted in snow. It is difficult to look hard at such a picture without being overtaken by a sudden, intimate, desolating sense of the particular strangeness and beauty of 20th-century civilization, and without realizing simultaneously that this exact, simple configuration of forms--the vista of T-shaped streetlamps, icicles on an orange iron railing, a depthless blue sky--is poignant, unrepeatable, resplendent with mystery...