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...local color, Begley throws in a few tips about doing business abroad. Beware Brazilians, he warns. They can be good companions but unreliable partners. Also, when negotiating far from home, Ben never set a departure deadline, "so that the other side was face-to-face with the dull prospect of his insisting on every point however long it took to resolve...
...Such a prospect is unlikely. Clinton and most people in Haiti are pinning their hopes on a political settlement that will make Haitians want to stay home. For the first time since last February, diplomats are finding signs of life in the talks the U.N. and the Organization of American States are sponsoring in an effort to restore democracy and reinstate Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected President who was ousted in a September 1991 coup...
...Afro-American studies if an American Cultures Department or an Ethnic Studies Program does make its way into Harvard: The next logical step would be to subsume Afro-American Studies under American Studies, making it co-equal to an Asian-American and a Latino-American Studies. But this prospect grates loudly against our common sense: How can you compare African-American history to Asian-American history? How can you compare African-American literature to Latino-American literature...
...weekly prime-time slot. But Letterman rejected them. "If you were going to do a half-hour of prime-time television," he explained, "you would have to do it as well as Jerry Seinfeld does it. I couldn't do it that well, so why waste my time?" The prospect of a different kind of prime-time showcase -- a variety show, say -- also held little appeal. "I would not be interested enough in that format to do what it took to make it work," he said...
...help cover a down payment for a $235,000 house in Novato, California. "I think our parents were a little more responsible about money," says Lynn, a single mother who earns $55,000 as founder of the Marin County Farmers' Market. She too confesses that the prospect of an inheritance inevitably figures in her future planning: "It's just such an unhappy subject, but I'm aware of the safety...