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...economic life. At bottom, though, the quarrel seems to have been over spoils: black-market profits, cuts of foreign business deals and all the other perks flowing from high rank in a dictatorship. Said Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at Washington's National Defense University: "It's a terrific feud in the family, and it's been pretty grubby--over money and power...
...what may set the stage for a heated feud this fall, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) will sponsor a demonstration in front of University Hall tomorrow to show the administration the extent of its support in the community and at Harvard...
...just as the feud threatened to get really ugly, NBC withdrew its challenge. The battle had got "much too personal," Wright said. It became clear, however, that something more than conscience had come to bear: nbc announced that it had reached an agreement with Murdoch under which nbc would be able to transmit some of its cable programming over Murdoch's Star TV network...
...face re-election next year, they can brush off the attacks for now. But one Senate Democrat is lost already. A day after the vote, Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, who had supported the amendment, switched over to the Republicans. Though his reasons include a long-time feud with Democrats in his state, he cited the amendment defeat as one of them...
...seductive premise: the violence Malcolm saw as a tool of liberation had degenerated into the internecine violence that killed him, and now into a senseless blood feud. But by the weekend the case's lessons, and its prospects, looked less clear. The man expected to be the prosecution's key witness seemed to be more impeachable, at least on character, than anything yet seen at the O.J. Simpson trial. And the state's allegations had achieved what the passage of years had failed to do -- drawn the Shabazz family and Farrakhan into apparent agreement on at least one belief: that...