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...also inching up for Let's Go travel guides, a Harvard summer stand-by. You'll see the world (or at least a small portion of it) with only backpack and pen if you're selected to be a researcher-writer. Applications are available at Harvard Student Agencies, 67 Mount Auburn St., and are due February...
...Alexis is Alexis Herman, the White House aide and longtime Democratic Party operative whom Clinton tapped to be Secretary of Labor. A former aide to Henry Kissinger, Lake is bookish and white. An ally of the late Ron Brown, Herman is glamorous and black. He's diplomacy and Mount Holyoke College; she's civil rights and Mobile, Alabama. On camera, where Lake can be quirky and anxious, Herman is cool and unflappable. And so it is all the more remarkable that two quite different people, nominated to do quite different jobs, now face an identical problem when their confirmation hearings...
SETTING SUN FOR JAPANESE STOCKS Japan's economy purportedly grew fastest of all the industrial countries last year, had no inflation and near zero interest rates. Ideal ingredients for a booming stock market. Yet Japan's stock market is rolling like a snowball down Mount Fuji. The Nikkei 225 index dropped more than 10% so far this year, to 17689,and some 55% off its peak of 38915, reached...
...Girl Scouts of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, are working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
...Mount Laurel scouts contend that of the final cookie cut, they're getting only crumbs. Last year the 400 scouts sold $111,000 worth of cookies (up to 100 boxes each). The troops' take: $15,000, or 40[cents] a box. But the baker got $30,000, and the Pines council got $66,000, which goes toward services and programs. This year the troops asked for 60[cents], with a guarantee to sell an average 110 boxes a scout. The council countered with 45[cents], throwing in incentives like patches, or 50[cents] without the extras. No deal. Looks like...