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...someone else. Somewhere there are many happy, newly rich people. It is doubtful they are overly distressed by Barings' losses. Americans had a similar experience a few years ago, when our own brand of high-rolling financial experts" took much of the savings and loan system for a ride. We taxpayers had to come up with an estimated $500 billion to cover those losses. And if Leeson suffers the same fate as our homegrown speculators, he will end up in a nice, cushy job, living the good life. Frank Jerome Columbus, Indiana BARINGS' COLLAPSE CANNOT BE BLAMED solely on derivatives...
...brown Kazakh desert, it flew into a new era of space exploration, transforming one of the 20th century's fiercest rivalries into a partnership for the 21st century. Thagard, 51, became the first American to be shot into space aboard a Russian launcher. And after a two-day ride on the Soyuz, the physician-astronaut became the first American to take up residence in the Mir space station, where he will study the effects of lengthy space flight on the human body. Thagard is scheduled to stay aboard Mir for three months, which will be the longest time an American...
JAMES RODDA BEGAN TO HAVE SECOND thoughts about his decision to ride out the storms when his 5-ft. 4-in. wife Gloria opened their front door and met a 5-ft. wall of water. It was 8 p.m. on Friday, March 10, in Mission Fields, just outside Carmel; the lights were out, the phones were down, and there was no one left in the neighborhood to hear them screaming. California was in the middle of its second "100-year storm" in three months, and the Carmel Valley was in for a very bad night...
...first, Pecos Bill seems hopelessly macho. "I'm pecos Bill; I can shoot straighter, ride faster, and drink harder than any man alive," he boasts. His horse indulges in gratuitous rearing and is named Widowmaker. Luckily, Pecos is more than just the embodiment of testosterone-identified values. After a little initial prickliness between them ("Stay away from my horse, or he'll kill you"), Pecos decides to help Daniel save his farm and his family. On their way, they round up some other legendary figures: Paul Bunyan (Oliver Platt) and John Henry (Roger Aaron Brown...
Dollar's Roller-Coaster Ride...