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...24th annual Head of the Charles Regatta is the largest single-day rowing competition in the world and is generally regarded as the premier event of the fall rowing season. The event, which began with a mere 100 boats in an impromptu race, now boasts 3500 competitors in nearly 850 boats and will draw over a quarter of a million spectators...
...Democrat's aides disputed an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll showing Bush with a 17-point lead, his largest of the campaign. They pointed instead to other polls indicating about half that margin...
...KNOWS THE TROUBLE THEY'VE SEEN. Retail stock brokerages are suffering because small investors, a primary source of commissions, are staying out of the market. Nearly 16,000 securities-industry workers have lost their jobs, while profits have plunged at such firms as Merrill Lynch and Paine Webber. The largest investment houses have survived the down cycle, with one exception: E.F. Hutton, already suffering from a check-kiting scandal before the crash, nearly collapsed afterward and was absorbed last December by Shearson Lehman...
Bangkok alone is breaking world records with its facilities. One of its 17 five-star hotels, the Oriental, is acclaimed by Institutional Investor as the finest in the world; one of its more than 11,000 restaurants is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest in the world; and one of its 63 discos is among the world's three biggest. Here, in fact, is a travel agent's dream: first-class services at Third World prices, exoticism crossed with elegance. With the Thai baht tied to the declining dollar, Thailand has come to mean...
...Yugoslavia's autonomous province of Voivodina last week, some 100,000 Serbs demanded and got the resignation of the entire 15-member provincial Politburo. Two days later in Montenegro, thousands of protesters also demanded the ouster of the Communist Party leadership. Across Serbia, largest of the country's six republics, thousands of demonstrators called for tough, centralized control over the southern province of Kosovo, where a majority of the 2 million inhabitants are ethnic Albanians. Many carried photos of Serbian Party leader Slobodan Milosevic...