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...Peter Jenkin Morgan was watching with a knowing eye on Sept. 15, when some 4,000 Lehman Brothers employees in London's Canary Wharf lost their jobs in a flash - and cut loose with abandon in the business district's pubs. Champagne corks popped, and conversations seemed to be on steroids as everyone wanted to talk. Surrounded by cardboard boxes holding their desk contents, the newly unemployed bankers drank for hours. For a night, at least, Canary Wharf looked like a carnival...
Dartmouth scored the equalizer 6:30 into the second half when sophomore forward Kim Jenkin--who made last week's Ivy League Honor Roll with a hat trick and eight points--scored on a penalty stroke...
...grass, empty bottles, broken glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance has exposed his wife Jean to another meeting with a classmate, the Scottish-born David...
...editorial writers on newspapers, "Afghanistanism" has long had a special insider's meaning that is suddenly out of date. It meant ducking hot issues. Robert U. Brown, editor of the trade weekly Editor and Publisher, remembers when Tulsa Editor Jenkin Lloyd Jones first used it in a 1948 speech to a convention of editorial writers. "Many an editorial writer can't hit a short-range target," Jones said. "It takes guts to dig up the dirt on the sheriff, or to expose a utility racket, or to tangle with the Governor. They all bite back...
...Jenkin candidly admitted that the new budget will result in an increase of the annual rate from 10.3% to 17.5% by next November. Thus many who will benefit from the changed tax structure may find their gains eroded by higher inflation...