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...more capable historians. And his preening modesty belongs in a textbook of self-caricature: "Several years ago, Elie Wiesel flattered me by publicly stating that 'if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different.' Generous as the assessment is, it is an obvious exaggeration...
...Vice President. Godoy remains outraged that General Ortega held on to his army post and has repeatedly called Chamorro and Lacayo "prisoners of the military." Lacayo pounces on such overheated rhetoric. "How much accommodation with the Sandinistas is too much?" he asks. "If we're too generous, that's better than not being generous enough. The gains we've made by negotiating with the Sandinistas are enormous. For a start, we're not killing each other anymore...
...might go bust and leave them penniless in retirement, one class of employees has no such concerns: top federal officials. It's not just that their benefits are guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury and thus protected from the economic shocks that have wrecked some company plans. Thanks to a generous cost of living index scheme that would be extremely rare in private industry -- a plan that the U.S. Congress designed mainly for its own benefit -- many former federal officeholders actually make more for not working than they ever did on the job. Some even outearn incumbents in the offices they...
...these towns have persuaded their universities to pound out tax agreements as substantial as Harvard's. Newton Mayor Theodore Mann, for instance, says he is looking for more generous reciprocation from his city's five colleges, the largest of which is Boston College...
...year. Tentatively titled the Alliance of Ne'erdowell Graduates just Sitting and Thinking (ANGST), the organization's primary mission will be to provide support, solidarity and a weekly newsletter for its core constituency. As ANGST's founder, I would naturally be honored to assume its presidency, along with the generous stipend which this office will provide...