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...nine-square grid, broken into three-by-three-square cells. The object: fill each square with a number from 1 to 9 so that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle books in the 1970s under the scintillating title Number Puzzle. The Western craze didn't take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used the Japanese name to pitch his puzzle-generating program to the London Times. Sudoku has since been...
...Joel Iacoomes, a native of Martha’s Vineyard, was studying Latin grammar at a preparatory school in Roxbury...
...Manila. Inspired by Aquino's success in toppling Filipino Strongman Ferdinand Marcos, more than 4,000 South Koreans last week marched in Seoul, hoping to bring the same kind of democratic people power to their country. Said Leading Dissident Kim Dae Jung: "As the Argentine situation has affected other Latin American countries in their struggle for democratization, the Philippine situation will have a domino effect on other Asian countries fighting for democracy...
France was in torment . Youths marched through the streets of Nantes shouting lethal threats at their neighbors. The Jewish-owned shops of Nancy were invaded and the synagogue besieged. In Paris, anti-Semitic troops marched in the Latin Quarter, on the boulevards and around the Palais de Justice: familiar sights to students of World War II--but this was two generations before...
BankAmerica's wounds, the result of bad loans to everyone from Western farmers to Latin American borrowers to ailing energy companies, would make almost anyone queasy. In the second quarter of 1986, the company announced a $640 million loss, the second worst in U.S. banking history.[*] Losses in the third quarter could reach $75 million. Last year the bank began a cost-cutting program that has involved the sale of $1.3 billion in assets and has led to some 5,000 layoffs among its 80,000 employees; 5,000 additional job losses are expected next year. BankAmerica officials predict earnings...