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...should hold on. Now she keeps giving me excuses why she can't meet me for a few days." While Costa's threat was figurative, customer anger seemed all too real last week after an investor who lost nearly his entire multimillion-dollar portfolio walked into a Merrill Lynch outlet in Miami with a .357 magnum in his briefcase and killed the branch manager, seriously wounded a broker and then committed suicide. The customer, Arthur Kane, 53, later turned out to be a disbarred Kansas City lawyer and convicted con man who was living in Florida under a witness protection...
...inspire a little unity in the Quad and let people on the rest of the campus know what's going on in the Quad. It seems like a long, long, long way away to some people," said Krivan, who last year published the Tibetan Trade Journal, an open outlet for freshman literature and poetry...
...should not serve as an outlet for Harvard students to voice their opinions to the U.S. Government," he added...
...that has no American parallel. The program confronts young contestants with invidious English expressions that have infiltrated common parlance and invites them to concoct substitutes in their own language. Some of the prizewinning neologisms: for milkshake, mouslait (literally, milk foam); for hot dog, saucipain (sausage bread); for fast- food outlet, restapouce (quick-bite restaurant). Outsiders often dismiss such exercises as evidence of France's obsession with maintaining the purity of its beloved tongue, especially against the encroachments of Franglais. But lately the guardians of the linguistic heritage of Voltaire and Racine have been voicing a more serious concern: whether French...
...Last week the FCC may finally have pulled RKO's plug. Edward Kuhlmann, an FCC administrative law judge, denied RKO's application to renew its license for KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, and stripped the company of its licenses for twelve radio stations and one other TV outlet. Declared Kuhlmann: "No case ever before decided by this commission presents dishonesty comparable...