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...overall size of the Faculty has failed to grow since 1987--despite 20 new positions paid for by the flush coffers of the Faculty in the last 18 months...
...climbed to 7,100 a night in 1997 after hitting a low of 6,000 in 1994. Homelessness has roiled San Francisco for much of the '90s: the Coalition for the Homeless estimates that 16,000 people are homeless there each night, twice as many as 10 years ago. Flush economic times may contribute to the problem: in many cities housing prices have soared out of reach of poor residents...
...Andersson--have transformed his dour testaments into radiance. August (who will play the young Darth Vader's mother in the new Star Wars film) is an excellent heir to that magnificent tradition. Emotions don't play on her face; they live there in all their complexity and contradiction. They flush into a mischievous grin or produce tears as natural as a summer shower. Her face is a book. Read it for two hours and know the triumph and pain of a strong woman's love...
...House Judiciary Committee, is tidier and seems to have a lot less fun. In order to finance the Arkansas Project, an effort to find something dirty on Bill Clinton, Scaife coughed up roughly the same sort of money that Flynt offered in the advertisement he took to flush out bimbos with Republican leanings. Scaife was using tax-free foundation money, which simply reflects the fact that Republicans tend to be better at personal finance--although, now that I think of it, maybe Flynt can prove to the IRS that for a man in his line of work, payment for dirty...
...gave the world two famous penny-pinching billionaires: J. Paul Getty (1892-1976), legendary for forcing guests at his estate to use a pay phone, and H.L. Hunt (1889-74), who every day either brought his lunch to work in a paper sack or, when not feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved to race alongside Houston police in pursuit of evildoers...