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...savings. And now I might lose it all." Sundlun shut the institutions after their private insurer, the Rhode Island Share & Deposit Indemnity Corp., was sapped by the failure of a Providence bank whose president vanished in November with $13 million in funds. While 22 credit unions were scheduled to reopen this week under federal deposit insurance, Sundlun pledged to bail out shuttered lenders that are too weak to qualify for such coverage...
Well, O.K., maybe not. Have a beer, sit down in the gray sandstone grit, but do not attempt to reopen the great debate over whether the dinosaurs were wiped out at the end of the Cretaceous period by a huge comet or a vast cloud of volcanic dust or any of 80-odd other proposed killers, all of which Horner spurns. He has a rubber stamp that says, WHO GIVES A S--- WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS? Horner cares about how they lived...
With Nicaragua on the brink of chaos, Chamorro offered last Wednesday to reopen talks with the unions and Sandinista leaders. By the next morning, agreement was reached and calm restored. Union leaders pointed triumphantly to the long list of concessions. Chamorro's supporters hailed as a victory the army's decision to obey orders and not back the strikers. They cited with particular pride a public pledge of loyalty made by Daniel's brother, General Humberto Ortega, who heads the armed forces...
...GREEN LIGHT FOR RED LIGHTS? When AIDS struck San Francisco, city authorities closed many of the gay bathhouses. In France, land of Descartes and Voltaire, a different logic prevails: AIDS has prompted a call to reopen the brothels, which have been banned since 1946. The idea comes from Michele Barzach, a gynecologist and feminist who gained renown in 1986 when she became Health Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac. Now a deputy mayor of Paris, Barzach has not abandoned her support for women's rights. But she argues that the only way to keep AIDS...
This spring, the Progressive Jewish Alliance and Society of Arab Students joined together in a campaign to bring the issue before the Harvard community. Thus far, more than 500 students and 130 professors have signed a petition decrying the closure of universities and urging the Israeli government to reopen them. Letters to this effect will be sent to both the Israeli government and the U.S. Department of State...