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...changing times. Despite the oil crises of the 1970s and the Japanese challenge of the '80s, GM never put its heart into developing smaller, high-quality cars. It took a new division, Saturn, to develop GM's first winning U.S. small car. "When you're on top of the heap, there's a disdain for change, a disdain for new ideas," says Lawrence Hrebiniak, a professor at the Wharton School. "It just goes with the territory, because...
FIRST HE TRIED PERSUASION. THEN HE OFFERED COMpromise. When that didn't work, Boris Yeltsin declared war. And that finally led to compromise. After eight days of haggling with Russia's supreme legislature, Russia's first | democratically elected leader took the podium on Thursday and proceeded to heap buckets of scorn upon the Congress of People's Deputies, a legislature populated with Soviet holdovers. Their simmering feud had finally boiled over. He blasted the body for "blocking reform," for orchestrating a "creeping coup." He accused Deputies of defiling the Kremlin meeting hall with "the sick ambitions of failed politicians." Then...
...when you have as bad a record as we do, no musical act is going to want to risk coming here and bombing. Harvard may win the U.S. News and World Report sweepstakes, but if we were ranked on campus coolness, we'd be dusting the bottom of the heap--way under a school like Johnson and Wales University, a culinary and hotel management school in Rhode Island...
...bottom. The mud of American society is filled with salesmen. They make little money, fight insanely hard for it and go home with no pride at the end of the day. Pacino, in the role of Roma, has made it to the top of this dung heap...
During the primaries, Clinton seemed headed for the trash heap. Gennifer Flowers had become a household name, the first round of draft stories dominated the news, and the candidate insisted improbably that he hadn't inhaled. But some of Clinton's closest associates were most disturbed by the fact that during those dark days the candidate played golf at the Little Rock Country Club, which has yet to admit its first black member. "We discussed it all," says a Yale classmate of Clinton's who has supported him ever since. "Bill had privileges at the club because he was Governor...