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...uncle just stepped away for tea, seems to have won his editor's respect with his lifelong refusal to pretty himself up, much less anyone else. The diarist would look at scribblings 20 years old, realize what a creep he had been when he had written that, yet reject his right to excise a word. His own wife was "a pathetic little wren," though at another time she was his "treasure girl with a heart of gold," but then again she was "homely as a stump fence built in the dark...
...stormy since 1980, when the two countries broke over Jordan's clandestine support of the anti-Assad Muslim Brotherhood. Hostilities continued until last August, when Hussein unexpectedly agreed to pursue a rapprochement. Subsequent talks between Jordanian and Syrian officials produced travel and trade accords, as well as agreements to reject bilateral negotiations with Israel and to back a U.N.-sponsored international peace conference...
...facing the union, Icahn is determined and defiant. He has hired nearly 2,000 nonunion flight attendants to replace the strikers. Says he: "The company cannot exist without these cuts. We've got guts. We're not going to chicken out." If the unions reject his demands, Icahn has threatened to sell all or part of TWA. Says he: "I am not going to stand by and watch this company bleed to death. If we can't make money, I will cash in my chips." But Icahn has worked his way into a trap: he could walk away right...
While the business schools at Carnegie Mellon, Duke, and MIT also chose to reject all applicants who had tried to see their admissions files, Stanford’s and Dartmouth’s schools took a different tack, electing not to take action until considering each applicant’s explanation...
...Stanford eventually decided to reject all 41 applicants...