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...remember 1952 experienced a sharp jolt of deja vu 35 years later during the Iran-contra hearings of 1987. When the Reagan Administration nominated Lieut. Colonel Oliver North as its designated fall guy, North's brilliant attorney, Brendan Sullivan Jr., had his client not only boldly defy Marine Corps protocol by appearing before the congressional panel in full uniform with a chestful of decorations but also present his defense with the same quaver of voice and modicum of manly moisture in the eye that had served Nixon so well. The result was a tidal wave of Olliemania that swept...
...wrong, Saddam had one thing right -- that the Middle East was due for some major refurbishing. Religious hatred, excessive militarization, economic inequities and entrenched feudalism combine to make it a nasty neighborhood. The region has long been -- and remains -- violence-prone, politically archaic, oppressive. The jolt of the gulf war, however, may change the physics for a moment. "Maybe the shock," says British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, "will enable people to think afresh, more constructively." Just as the allies seized the moment to finish off Saddam's army, so too should they seize the opportunity to make lasting changes...
Alarm clocks will jolt about 6700 students from their brief vacation mode this morning, as yet another semester gets underway...
...foreign business of American carriers has grown 17%. But the airlines are watching a relatively slow year turn into a disaster. The financial outlook: "Stinko," declares Robert Crandall, chief of American Airlines, one of the healthiest carriers. Michael Durham, the airline's chief financial officer, blames the fuel jolt as the No. 1 problem. "There's very little you can do when a commodity that represents 15% to 20% of your total operating costs goes up by almost 100%. It's a very difficult time to make money...
...comes as something of a jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease...