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...lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they ring the phone off the hook. Everybody's become my cousin...
...gained with a computer password, actually a number code. Last week TRW officials confirmed that an account password had been filched from one of its creditor subscribers, a West Coast Sears store. It was then posted on so-called electronic bulletin boards, which almost any computer enthusiast can hook into through phone lines...
...EMPHASIS on huge-and, increasingly, unreasonably expensive--power plants, whether nuclear or coal-fired, relegates other sources of power, such as conservation and the use of renewable resources, to the back burner. Under the DOE plan, conservation measures get last priority. Meanwhile, however, an experiment going on now at Hook River, Oregon, where an entire town was refitted with the latest in energy efficient insulation and appliances, seems to be proving that conservation can indeed quickly pay for itself and eliminate the need for many additional power plants...
...awful thing to say, because I think Westmoreland should have been fired years ago." Said Westmoreland's attorney Dan Burt last week: "The tapes show that Howard Stringer didn't believe the show was accurate, and that he didn't care because he wanted to hook Westmoreland." CBS Lawyer David Boies disagreed, arguing that the quotes from Stringer were taken out of context. In deed, in the deposition, Stringer added that after working on the show he felt that "General Westmoreland was not as good as I had believed...
...Asia. It is well conceived, extremely well managed, and consistently praised by its graduates. It is one of Harvard's most successful efforts to involve the University in the concerns of the developing countries. It deserves far better and more balanced reporting than this search for negatives. Richard Hook Research Associate Harvard Institute for International Development...