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...restaurant has filed suit against the institute, arguing that although the restaurant's lease expires in September, it has a right to extend its lease for another five years...
...larger. Even the giant Merrill Lynch could soon be forced into a deal - Merrill already has a $1 billion joint venture focused on newly affluent individual investors with Britain's HSBC, a huge financial holding company; if the two expand their partnership, the global reach of American banking could extend even further...
Since last May, the University has had the chance to extend this recognition to the crest of its administration as well. Tenure processes and administration appointments have often been compared to a political process. And, as in politics, the presidential selection process will become a matter of women occasionally replacing the white males who have previously been the only type of person to hold--or to be considered for--the position...
...attitude common to all is resentment. Johnson is resentful that, with so few positive tests among so many athletes, Olympic sport is being tarred, with consequences that will extend to TV ratings and sponsorships. Masback is resentful that in the summer of 1998 shot putter Randy Barnes made headlines for a positive steroid test even as baseball hero Mark McGwire made headlines for hitting home runs while taking a steroid, androstenedione, that Major League Baseball, in its don't-ask-don't-tell cynicism, sanctions...
...fall of celebrated people. In this young country, success was a young man's game, and so was failure. But today's Americans might take Fitzgerald's jeremiad as a compliment: there are no second acts because we prolong the first act forever; we work and play hard to extend adolescence for another 40, 50 years. It's hard work, consuming all that wheat germ and Viagra, but it's worth it to stay tan, teen and terrific. Besides, the alternative is so nonattractive. To be old in America is almost as uncool as being poor...