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...second-in-command at his family's publishing empire, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Forbes did not act on suggestions that his father, widely rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build a wall between them--not a partition, but a floor-to-ceiling wall. It became known around the company as Steve's "Berlin Wall...
...course, the latter that millions of Americans saw on Tuesday night in the speech Dole may forever wish he hadn't given. He could have let someone else handle the Republican response to Clinton's State of the Union address. But if he had to do it, his austere outer office was the wrong place; and if he had to do it there, a few minutes after the President was the wrong time; and if he had to do it then and there, sitting by a flag with bad lighting and a worse script was the wrong format for such...
...momentous sights revealed by the Hubble can stir anybody's imagination. These are rare glimpses of the outer boundaries of physical reality, and of the fiery cataclysms in which nature perpetually regenerates itself. Even astronomers have trouble keeping their professional cool when pictures like the new one--showing a section of the Eagle Nebula, a knot of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Serpens--come beaming in from space. "When I saw it, I was just blown away," says NASA's Ed Weiler, the Hubble's chief scientist. The image has such visual impact, in fact, that some researchers...
...students entered the dean's outer office at about 2 p.m., holding fluorescent green fliers and letters written to Lewis voicing their concerns over recent decisions to change the organization of the college's public service programs...
...during a passage singularly fraught with danger for the world. The U.N. has served as a forum for hair-trigger antagonists to meet regularly and vent their grievances. It has provided a framework for international laws that govern activities ranging from nuclear nonproliferation to the use of outer space and the ocean floors. It has helped unfortunate nations set up democracies, create livelihoods and combat threats to health. It has acted as a useful buffer in 35 peacekeeping missions, and more than 30 million desperate refugees have come under its wing. Pope John Paul II's Oct. 5 speech...