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...December of last year, with economies settling down and currencies stabilizing, Rubin began to put in motion a long-contemplated plan to return to the private sector. Dining with Summers at the Jefferson Hotel, Rubin's Washington residence, he broke the news that he was leaving. Rubin felt strongly that the announcement of his departure and Summers' succession should be simultaneous. The Secretary also wanted to allow financial markets a full trading day to digest the news. Allaying market anxieties as well was an uncharacteristically non-opaque endorsement from Alan Greenspan reassuring Wall Street that Greenspan and Summers, whose friendship...
...rebels say they are ready to hold it and even forge ahead. "[The Serbs] try to fight back," says Agron Thaci, 24, taking a break from cleaning and greasing his AK-47. "But we beat them. We wait, they come, and after..." He makes a slow horizontal cutting motion with his hand...
...just don't end up with a novel. While he capitalizes handsomely on the freedom afforded by fiction (so many more people you can zing without fear of libel!), Andersen is hamstrung by the overall structure that the genre demands. His sentences may sparkle, but the book's forward motion is a sputtering lope. Its loose, digressive shape makes Turn of the Century awfully easy to put down...
...stretch to blame a talk show for a murder committed later by a guest. But the Amedures argued it was the show's recklessness that set the crime in motion. They contended that the producers should have screened the guests enough to know that Schmitz had a history of mental illness, and the show should have realized that the humiliation of being surprised by a gay crush on TV might send an emotionally fragile person like Schmitz over the edge. The jury agreed. (Schmitz is scheduled to be retried for the murder in August; a 1996 conviction was reversed...
...intersession motion originated in the Undergraduate Council's Student Affairs Committee, chaired by John Paul Rollert '00. Becella presented the proposal to the Faculty Council...