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...institution committed to the organizational principle of "every tub on its own bottom," Lowell's interdict against seeking donors was a terrible omen, one that would re-emerge some six decades later when the museum's director, professor of archaeology Lawrence Stager, would not raise money himself and barred others from doing so besides. But this jumps ahead of the story...
...getting out almost as soon as they got in. The alleged U.S. dithering at one point caused the Secretary-General to exclaim, "All my experience tells me not to trust the U.S. You are unpredictable and change your minds too often!" Whoever is right, the discord was an unhappy omen of future trouble...
...near record lows -- classic signals that the bull market that began 2 1/2 years ago has got dangerously long in the tooth. At the same time, companies continue to flood Wall Street with new issues to cash in on the bull's run before it can stumble -- another omen that the market may be overheated and headed for a fall. Even the current rush of little-guy buyers is usually a harbinger of a bear market...
ACTOR BRANDON LEE HAD HOPED TO RIDE THE CROW, his third significant Hollywood film, to stardom. Instead it was a bird of ill omen. A storm destroyed sets; a carpenter was nearly electrocuted. Then during Wednesday's filming, a gun that should have shot blanks apparently fired something that passed through Lee's abdomen and lodged next to his spine, killing him. "I don't know how it got in ((the gun))," said The Crow's executive producer of the projectile, later identified as a .44-cal. bullet...
Clinicians have also achieved some success against a lung ailment called Mycobacterium avium complex, which mimics tuberculosis. "MAC is difficult to treat," says Dr. Mathilde Krim, chairman of AmFAR. "It is considered a bad omen and is usually terminal." This past December the Food and Drug Administration approved rifabutin for protection against MAC. According to clinical trials sponsored by AmFAR, the drug cuts the chance of developing...