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...there is a set of principles and safeguards written into this venture that was not present in the earlier arrangement," Bok said. He added that when he denied the first proposal in 1980, he said that the school should look for solutions fro the problems he outlined and that he would consider any proposal brought to him in the future...
...Weasel, Slippery Mick, Flying Pharaoh & Co. are the sobriquets of truck drivers who make the overland shuttle from England to Saudi Arabia, carrying heavy machinery to and cheap petroleum fro. Several years ago, British Journalist Robert Hutchison enlisted in the small army of these diesel gypsies, sharing their home cooking and their raunchy exploits. Aside from engine trouble and the occasional stray bullet, his lively memoir records few acknowledgments of the 20th century. Ancient hostilities persist, and bribery remains endemic. Still, customs inspectors prefer modern baksheesh. At one checkpoint, the presentation of a girly magazine "got us all waved...
...fronds lie beds of fragrant star jasmine and flowering ice plant. Then there are those strapping, clean-cut young men and women, tossing Frisbees in the perpetual sunshine, lounging on the grass in cutoffs and T shirts, cycling along special bike lanes on their way to buy frozen yogurts ("fro-yo," to locals) or to play a few sets of tennis. Finally, there are the buildings, the picturesque, mission-style structures with their red tile roofs and colonnaded sandstone facades. Could anything that looks this much like a country club be a serious academic institution? It could if its name...
...secondary market. The stock would merely be bought by an investor who, noticing the low price of the stock compared to its earning potential, would snap it up as a bargain. This stockowner may well be less scrupulous than Harvard; he might not trouble to lobby at stockholder meetings fro reform of company practices in South Africa...
...Between: "One assumes that foreign ladies, English and Americans particularly, because they are tremulous, neurotic bags of bone reduced by sexual malnutrition, find all Italians irresistible. Gentlemen who agree with this premise are often to be found in hotels during festa times when numerous visitors, to-ing and fro-ing at odd times, create a nice smorgasbord. Don Giovanni prowls the hallways, listening to accents and watching the sway of buttocks. He selects a recipient for his gifts and tracks her down to her door. He knocks and keeps knocking, asking for one small moment, pliss. If you've glanced...