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These convulsions are the natural consequence of imperial disintegration. Sooner or later, empires have always fallen apart, and the result has always been ugly. Typically, the demise of the Holy Roman Empire in the 17th century triggered the 30 Years...
...Fallen Angel, a play about a rock band that is opening in Chicago next month, features a memorable jailhouse scene in which the young leader of the band visits his father, a convicted financier. Perhaps the playwright, BILLY BOESKY, understood the material all too well. His father, Ivan Boesky, served two years (1988-90) for stock-trading crimes...
...Pirates are not the only team that is striking out financially. After years of booming ticket sales, record profits and lucrative television contracts, major league baseball has fallen into a slump. Stadium attendance is flat, payrolls are climbing, and revenues are on the decline. A growing number of clubs are crying broke. Several others, including the Detroit Tigers and Houston Astros, are being shopped around by cash-drained owners. Last week's sale of the money-losing Seattle Mariners to a group headed by Japan's Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of the video-gamemaker Nintendo, was the latest confirmation...
Schools, labor unions and other institutions that once educated young people about voting have also fallen down on the job. In a 1989 survey of 1,006 youths by People for the American Way, only 12% rated voting as a basic tenet of good citizenship. "There's a whole generation of people growing up who should be our future leaders but who are very disaffected, and that's scary," says Cohn...
Harvard senior Jen Minkus scored the first goalwith 1:51 left in the first period, slipping thepuck past fallen Huskie goalie Kim Platt...