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...Arafat's ailing health was plain to see at Friday?s ceremony. "The problem," says Dowell, "is that Arafat's made tough decisions that aren't popular among Palestinians, but he hasn't created an heir...
...time you read this, perhaps you've descended from the ethanol-induced haze that accompanies many a student's Head of the Charles weekend. Or maybe you've finally returned to campus now that the bothersome teenage preppies, shameless radio hawkers, old Harvard oarsmen and just plain crazy rowing aficionados have left town. Whatever the case, welcome back to normalcy: a time when one can stroll peacefully along the Charles, and Harvard isn't a police state...
Wooroloo would be an impressive debut coming from any new poet, but the book will be read by many out of plain curiosity: In what manner does a child of those parents write? And although Hughes denies being consciously influenced by the work of her mother and father, traces from both are easy to see. Her mother's violent, lacerating imagery appears in a poem called "Hysterectomy": "My disease will be stripped out/ Like the rotten lining of a leather coat." Plath's angry confessional tone is echoed in "Granny": "You loved me not, just saw/ A copy...
...occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied up in stocks, to pros whose sophisticated strategies for dealing with risk have come unglued. The trend is very good for safe havens like T-bonds (zeros or plain old bonds) or even tax-free municipal bonds, which now offer enticing yields. It means that relative to junk and high-grade corporate bonds, emerging- market stocks and bonds, and even U.S. stocks, T-bonds will attract more money. Their yields must be driven so low that riskier assets finally look...
Chain's death in a skirmish to save a 40-ft. redwood was murder, plain, pure and simple. A compassionate person was sacrificed at the altar of human greed. What incredible arrogance and ignorance. But these two qualities do seem to go hand in hand, don't they? CAROLYN AND DAVE CANOY Salem...