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...brace for a possible rush to redeem Magellan shares in the wake of his departure, Lynch had been quietly accumulating a $1.8 billion cash hoard as part of the mutual fund's portfolio of 1,400 stocks. At week's end nervous investors were redeeming Magellan shares at a rate 75% faster than that of the previous week...
...politics and a respected analyst of foreign policy. His forthcoming book, In the Arena, excerpted this week in TIME, is his most emotionally fired memoir to date and his most exculpatory. Beginning with his flight from the White House, he recounts his moments of despair and his struggle to redeem himself...
...Crimson hoped it could redeem itself at Columbia the next day. But Harvard couldn't peel off that down mood, and Columbia took advantage...
...Gorbachev will not be able to repair fully the political damage the invasion has wrought in Azerbaijan and the rest of the country. The head of the Azerbaijani Communist Party was dismissed for "serious mistakes" and replaced by the republic's premier, Ayaz Mutalibov, but the move cannot redeem the prestige of a party now identified with the military occupation. Yazov seemed to confirm last week that Gorbachev intervened not to save Armenian lives but to prevent the Popular Front from taking control of Azerbaijan. "The army's actions," he said, "are directed at destroying the organizational structure...
Through it all, Havel kept writing, kept publishing, kept denouncing the communist system as a concatenation of lies, no less corrupting for being universally recognized as lies. He spurned every chance to redeem his fortunes by recantation or silence. When the system made him suffer, his suffering became the subject of his art. Forced for a time to work stacking empty beer barrels, he turned even that into two brief satires. Although the obvious villains in his writings were communist leaders, whom he sometimes denounced by name, his ultimate targets were fellow citizens, whose crime lay in getting along...