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...brother, who were described by Bonn officials as "completely bewildered" by Mathias' spectacular dilemma. Said one investigator: "He was a nice, quiet, dedicated young man from whom no one expected great deeds, or great misadventures either." The Rust family decided to sell the rights to their story, presumably to offset some $100,000 in fines and charges that Mathias could face, to the weekly West German picture magazine Stern...
...cost could have been much greater. The bank's anticipated $2.5 billion loss in the second quarter is expected to be offset by three profitable quarters, to bring the year-end loss back to $1 billion. The company aims to return to profitability next year. And within three years, Citicorp plans to reduce its Third World debt portfolio by about one third, or $5 billion. The bank intends to sell some of the loans at a discount and transform others through so-called debt-for-equity swaps, in which the loan becomes an investment in the borrower country...
Though many colleges award aid to low income students and have developed programs to offset declining minority enrollment, officials say it is precisely the students from underprivileged areas who are less likely to be aware of help available to them and shy away from higher education under the perception that it is a luxury that they can't afford...
...popular magazine Bohemia, "were too capitalistic." Ordinary Cubans have reacted to the new austerity with the indifference born of previous zigzags by Castro -- and with occasional spurts of defiance. Demand for underground home videocassette recorders, for example, has remained so strong that the government has tried to offset it by opening a series of VCR salons for public...
...Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia to 1982's My Favorite Year). On one level O'Toole is playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo. As he puts it in an interview -- with a trademark rueful smile, offset by trademark wells of sadness in his deep blue eyes -- the message is, "You've seen him drunk, now see him sober...