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National Political Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett, who analyzed the findings of this week's TIME poll on the candidates, crossed paths with Shapiro in Houston during the Democratic candidates' debate there in July. This early in the campaign, however, Shapiro and Barrett prefer to complement rather than duplicate each other's work. Being on the hustings always satisfies both the journalist and the graduate student in Shapiro. "It's a great opportunity to write about grand themes and also to be a bit irreverent," he says. "After all, if you can't be irreverent about the people running for office...
...alone comes to some $6 trillion.) But foreign holdings have grown surprisingly large in many lucrative, and occasionally sensitive, spots. Foreign investors now own 46% of the commercial real estate in downtown Los Angeles, for example, according to a survey by the Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group. In downtown Houston, the foreign-owned tally is 39%; in Minneapolis 32%; and in Manhattan...
...alternatives. Certainly, aphorisms fly every evening in the central redwood lodge, where seminarians cluster in excited groups over cups of coffee and thrash out Rilke and reincarnation deep into the night. "You do not visit India; you visit yourself," a New York investment analyst tells an Italian woman from Houston and her 18-year-old son. "Whether man finds things on Mars is a reflection of whether he can find them in his subconscious," opines a crystals dealer from Santa Cruz, Calif. At another table, former All-Star Pitcher Vida Blue is buried in a book; at still another...
...Traver, Bruce van Voorst New York: Bonnie Angelo, Mary Cronin, Jennifer Hull, Thomas McCarroll, Jeanne McDowell, Raji Samghabadi Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Melissa Ludtke, Lawrence Malkin Chicago: Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, Harry Kelly, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Elaine Dutka, Jon D. Hull, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman...
...same time, federal banking officials are readying a rescue mission for an ailing Texas bank, Houston-based First City Bancorporation (assets: $12.2 billion), which has lost more than $500 million in the past year and a half. The Government is expected to commit as much as $1 billion to guarantee the bank's loans as part of a plan in which a group of outside investors would take over the troubled institution...