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...authority and her sense of noblesse oblige were, in a way, her birthright as a child, the sixth of eight, of Jose and Demetria Cojuangco. After coming to the Philippines from Fujian province in China just three generations earlier, the Cojuangcos had quickly parlayed a small rice mill and a sugar mill into the richest empire in Tarlac province...
...grilled all the more intensively by congressional investigators. As he headed home last week, Hasenfus sounded weary: "I'm just going to settle down and be a father for a while." It may be a very long time until Sam Hall sees his own three children. The rumor mill in Managua suggests that, with some hard-line Sandinistas piqued by Hasenfus' early release, Hall will have a far harder time securing a pardon...
...Minnesota- based Corporate Raider Irwin Jacobs offered to pay about $4 billion to acquire Borg-Warner, a diversified company best known for its automotive products. The stocks of these targeted firms actually fell or remained steady just before the takeover announcements, suggesting that Wall Street's insider rumor mill may have shut down for the time being...
...Philosophers you read in Government or Social Studies sophomore tutorial who received honoraries: Alexis de Tocqueville (1852) and John Stuart Mill...
This ultimate scrapbook suggests an inevitable question: Why would anyone want to know the Lord's Prayer in Maltese, the age at which John Stuart Mill began learning Greek (three) or any of the other variegated trivia Bryan has gathered? Answer: to enrich the mind, astound friends and amuse dinner-table partners. The latter objective receives its own 19-entry chapter, in which Novelist Virginia Faulkner's advice is cited: "I ask the gentleman on my right, 'Are you a bed-wetter?', and when we have exhausted that, I remark to the gentleman on my left, 'You know, I spit...