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Nixon, who describes as one of his strengths the "iron butt" necessary for long hours of scholarship, had done all his homework when he met last week for two interviews in his office in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., with TIME chief of correspondents John F. Stacks and editor at large Strobe Talbott. "What is striking is that he regards these interviews as serious works and prepares for them," says Talbott. "He works out his talking points in a detailed fashion. He has a definite agenda...
...wonders, for example, if the teachers at Palmer Academy in Wesley Chapel, Fla., felt just a little silly having homework assignments faxed to straight-A student Jennifer Capriati during a week when she earned $28,000 on the tennis court alone, probably more than some of those teachers make in a year. They will face that question again and again in months to come. Capriati, for anyone who missed the biggest media hoopla since the Donald Trump divorce scandal, is a sturdily built 5-ft. 6 1/2-in. 13-year-old with nerve, force and a powerful backhand -- plus a business...
...from improvements in the condition of ailing companies. Called "vulture," "phoenix" or even "Lazarus" funds, such portfolios invest in troubled companies deemed likely to return to health. Other brokerages specialize in recommending bargain-price stocks and bonds of ailing companies to their clients. "You just have to do your homework," says Michael Singer, the president of R.D. Smith, which advised its customers to buy Public Service of New Hampshire bonds in 1988 after the utility filed for bankruptcy. The price of the bonds has since climbed from 30 cents on the dollar to nearly full value as the company...
Lewis admitted that his speed has dropped fromhis blistering championship pace. But he stillworks out to keep his fingers in shape bycompeting in intramurals, practicing karate, andtyping everything from homework assignments toletters...
...punching when the campaign for this month's legislative elections began in the lower house of the Diet last week. Kaifu deftly defended his ruling Liberal Democratic Party against corruption charges and attacks on the ten-month-old consumption tax. Conceded Socialist leader Takako Doi: "He's done his homework...