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...brouhaha--and despite the fact that the affair seems settled with the scheduled election apparently off--the whole business could still linger on into the future. Here...
...been eager to cash in on India's new open-door policy. European governments have supported the Indian ventures and often subsidized much of their financing. American firms, on the other hand, have been a little more hesitant. Memories of past hostile policies by the Indian government still linger in American corporations. IBM, for example, pulled out of India in 1977 rather than comply with an official edict requiring the company to relinquish 60% of the ownership of its Indian operations...
...After herpes simplex 1 and 2, the best known is the varicella-zoster virus, the cause of chicken pox, the nation's third most common ailment. Three-quarters of the U.S. population gets chicken pox by age 15. Most are never bothered by the virus again, though it will linger in their nervous systems for the rest of their lives. Some will not be so lucky. They will be victims of shingles, a painful, blistering rash that is triggered in adults when, for reasons unknown, the varicella-zoster virus reawakens...
...merchant genius of the Phoenicians seemed to linger over the land that Lebanon inherited from them. Beirut, a bright, amiable amalgam of beach resort and international bank and world-class shopping mall and neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy...
Nearly 3000 undergraduates signed a petition apologizing to McNamara for the disruption, still and all, the demonstration marked the birth of a third Harvard, a short-lived, hot-burning era that lasted until 1972 or thereabouts but whose effects linger still. This Harvard closed down spring after spring as students went on strike, occupied buildings, marched for peace, revolution, better treatment for local tenants and any number of other causes. This Harvard allowed little time for gentility or even excellence. "There was an element of uncertainty and disorientation that is easy so overlook, now that we all know how things...