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Other lenders may not prove as flexible. Mexico, which ranks second only to Brazil in the developing world as a debtor, is saddled with a $96 billion foreign debt, of which $77.7 billion was lent by a consortium of 300 international banks. Last month most of those banks agreed to extend through the end of the century Mexico's repayments on $48.7 billion of the total amount due. About 30 banks, however, have yet to sign the accord, and there are concerns among bankers that the impact of the great quake may lead them to withhold their signatures even longer...
...same breath, Yevtushenko mocked some of the policies of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "Yevtushenko has always been very adept at knowing which way the political winds are blowing. Clearly, he has lent his literary voice to Gorbachev's campaign...
...realize what a vacuum has been created by the collapse of drawing instruction in the art schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings...
When President Bok lent his "personal support" to Senator Kennedy's bill to limit U.S. corporations' investment in South Africa, he took the opportunity to laud Harvard's own policies on South African investment. According to Bok"...much of $635 [the Kennedy bill] parallels the policies Harvard has developed as a shareholder in firms doing business in South Africa. As does your bill, we have consistently opposed bank loans to the South African government or its subsidiary organizations...
...start guarding my health." In fact his health is under pretty tight security already. Among other medicinal regimens, he doses himself every night with Metamucil, a fiber laxative. He is a confessed fiber zealot. "I've probably saved 500 lives by spreading the gospel," he says. For Lent he has given up smoking his daily two or three Monte Cristo Havanas. At home on weekends, he crews a rowing machine for half-hour stretches. Every weekday at 11:15 a.m., he begins 45 minutes of sweating in the gym he had built on the fifth floor of the K.T. Keller...