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...novel idea of packaging an option on Irises, in the event that Dallhold Investments -- the holding company through which Bond owned the picture -- defaulted. The auction house rejected this proposal. In late 1988 Bond himself reportedly tried to pass off Irises to the New York megadeveloper Donald Trump as partial payment on a $180 million deal for the St. Moritz Hotel. Trump, no collector, said the painting was worth only $30 million and turned him down...
...harmful to the Soviet Union as long as it does not proceed more quickly than the loosening of the transatlantic tie in the West. "If Gorbachev can pull this off," he says, "the rewards will be handsome: maximal Soviet influence in Europe, which will more than compensate for partial loss of control in the eastern half...
Four broad options for changing the lotteryhave emerged, Jewett said. One is thestudent-generated proposal for "non-orderedchoice," in which students select four houses andare randomly assigned to one of them. Anotherwould modify "partial randomization" to allowstudents partial access to a second- orthird-choice house if their first choice meets itsquota, Jewett said...
...found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe feels that the quality of the food at Harvard is inexcusably...
...fact, some say he has already won a partial victory, as the debate now seems to be framed in terms of 100 percent random or nothing...