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...banking system, 1991 will be the maximum-stress test. The extent of the pain will depend on such influences as the outcome of the Persian Gulf crisis. But with too many banks chasing too little business in a slumping economy, the industry is headed for contraction. How the government responds to the shake-out will determine the shape of U.S. banking for the rest of the 1990s -- and beyond...
...ended the second trial resulting from the vicious rape and nearly fatal beating of an investment banker in New York City's Central Park in 1989. Three juveniles were convicted of rape and assault last August. After the latest trial, Richardson faces a maximum sentence of 10 years. Wise, who was treated as an adult, could get up to 26. Their sentences will be pronounced on Jan. 9. A third trial, slated for next month, will determine the fate of the last alleged assailant...
...several friends, including Wang Juntao, 32, a former editor of the defunct Economic Studies Weekly. Late last year the pair topped a secret government wanted list of pro- democracy leaders. Arrested a few months later while trying to escape abroad, Chen and Wang are detained in Qincheng, a maximum-security prison outside Beijing...
...Harvard should investigate the feasibility of installing galvanometers and hot water flow guages in individual suites. Then the University could directly bill rooming groups only for the energy they actually use. If monthly billing is deemed too inefficient, Harvard could levy a special surcharge on students who exceed a maximum threshold...
...Boitano held out for two years while pondering how to put together his own ice show nouveau: a romantic and theatrical evening with a minimum of props and kitsch and a maximum of athletic daring. Along the way came a TV special for ABC and another for Home Box Office that won three Emmy Awards, both starring his title-winning counterpart, Katarina Witt of what was then East Germany. The TV shows taught Boitano that he and Witt, although trained since early childhood as solo skaters, could enjoy the different discipline of working as a pair and, more important...