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The yen dump lasted nearly four days, as urgent calls flew between Treasury and Tokyo's Finance Ministry. In close consultation with Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Rubin pushed Finance Minister Hikaru Matsunaga to deregulate his economy and jump-start it with permanent tax cuts. Especially important to Rubin was...
State health officials have kicked the report back to Rutgers, alleging faulty methodology in the $1 million study. Governor Christine Todd Whitman, who had promised to revisit the law if it increased abortions, now sidesteps that pledge, saying the report is "only a draft." Conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation...
He must stay after school, every single episode of his life, to write a homily on the fourth-grade blackboard (e.g., "The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with 'Hail, Satan'"). In a family of noisy eaters, he is perhaps the loudest, at least in decibel-to-kilogram ratio. He...
After Yale changed its policies, Harvard wasfinally moved, replacing its refusal to changewith a pledge to make its offers competitive on acase-by-case basis. This pledge--to keep packageswithin "shouting distance" of the competition--wasa vague label for what would become a silent,case-by-case bidding war with...
At the bitter end of this tightfisted semester, the University did pledge to open higher education's largest pocketbook for financial aid--spurred by the threat of an undergraduate brain drain. Then it backed away from that pledge for a summer of calculating how much is just enough.