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...mere hint of a comeback sent TV crews and reporters scurrying in pursuit of the aging superstar. After all, when he was retired ten months ago because of a leg injury, John Henry had won a record $6.5 million, $2.3 million more than his closest competitor. Now comes the news that the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year is in training again at Hollywood Park and will soon be back on the track. The change of heart apparently came last month after John Henry, 11, showed a hankering to race again during a visit to Kentucky's Keeneland race...
There is a hint of despair to the yuppies' avid consumerism. "If you can't afford a home, you want the best espresso machine you can buy," observes Los Angeles Psychologist Shelley Taylor, 39. Manhattan Ad Executive Julianne Hastings, 39, wears designer clothes and jets off to the Caribbean for vacations. But she lives in an apartment "the same size as the bedroom I grew up in," and confesses, "I don't know anyone who saves now. Probably we're foolish and will all end up on the poor farm...
Throughout the campaign, Ershad made it clear that he would brook no nonsense from his adversaries. When one opposition leader, Begum Khaleda Zia, the widow of a former President who was slain in an attempted military coup in 1981, called for an election boycott and seemed to hint that the armed forces should distance themselves from the government, Ershad slapped her under virtual house arrest. He then declared that anyone urging a boycott would go to prison for up to seven years...
...disturbing that Austrian voters have not been more critical of Waldheim's refusal to come clean, particularly since documents revealed in the past week hint at a deeper involvement than the one Waldheim is currently asking us to swallow. We can only hope, with little optimism, that the June 8, vote will rebuff...
Since academic life is strongly individualistic, faculty members are understandably wary of efforts to encourage more collaboration; any hint of regimentation encounters immediate resistance. Even so, we need more opportunities to address common educational questions, for problems that do exist that cannot be resolved in any other way. For example, everyone would agree that teaching students to reason carefully and systematically is an important aim of undergraduate education. Yet a survey conducted last year revealed that, despite the popularity of the Core Program, students felt that among the more than one hundred new courses, only two or three actually helped...