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...reason to solve disputes will find From Beirut to Jerusalem glum reading. Oddly enough, Friedman remains optimistic. Amid all the shambles and contradictions of the Middle East, he met and worked beside Jews and Arabs who passionately want to live together in peace. Their will may be thwarted, by habit or history, but no one who reads this book can resist rooting for their success...
...account. Says Marc: "I would lie awake at night and relive every race, every game, to figure out where I miscalculated." He never did figure it out; by 1985 he had run up debts of $200,000 and joined Gamblers Anonymous. Family and friends thought he had kicked his habit, but in fact he had simply run out of money. In 1987, as his insurance business began to recover, Marc started going to the track again. He conned his wife into letting him take out a second mortgage on their home, telling her it was for investment; he lost...
Many have said that such a system ensures that the Corporation remains a closed, secretive body, and until this year critics were in the habit of pointing to the fact that no woman or minority had ever sat on the board...
...animals, the stranger the better. About 15 years ago, he joined the growing number of Texas ranchers who are devoting some of their pastures to exotic wildlife. Now Indian axis deer, African eland, wildebeests, Grevy's zebras and sable antelope roam Bentsen's range. To help support his wildlife habit, Bentsen sells surplus animals. His ostrich chicks fetch $7,500 a pair. Several times a year he lets hunters take trophies from the surplus animals on the ranch. Bentsen is a lifelong hunter and also a dedicated conservationist...
...Verba himself says as much--after initialdisclaimers. When asked why deans have a habit ofturning to him in times of need, theself-deprecating Verba says, "I'm too stupid tosay 'no'. I don't really know. It's hard for me toanswer...