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...have forgotten the past, and I fear we are condemned to repeat...
Levels of corporate debt tend to ebb and flow in a cyclical pattern. For the + moment, leverage is out of style. "Companies may have learned a valuable lesson," says William Rifkin, a managing director at Salomon Brothers, "but they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes in another 20 years." Maybe so, but that means the business managers who have survived the debt swamp will be unwilling to return to it until well into the next century...
...know, maybe Freud was rightmaybe we are all doomed to repeat the mistakes of our parents. Perhaps that explains why I campaigned door-to-door for Herbert Hoover last year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'd like to be Harvard President, although, come to think of it, the one person I know who went to Harvard was my cousin Irving, who later had a nervous breakdown in which he put on a squirrel costume and tried to climb the Empire State Building, so maybe its not such a hot idea after all. Sincerely, Allen...
...attempting to prepare the American people for war, Bush denied it. "I'm not trying to sound the tocsin of war," he said. "I want to have a peaceful resolution to this question. I've indicated we're prepared to give sanctions time to work, and I'll repeat that. But I'm not ruling out further options...
Evans is interested in politics and history, and he is expected to emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige...