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...ruin the picture if I am in it," asserts Paulina Porizkova...
...military relinquished power and invited Siles back from his exile in Peru. But his coalition of four left-of-center parties, including the local Communists, has bickered incessantly ever since; a series of economic mistakes, coupled with severe drought and flood, have brought the country to the brink of ruin. The inflation rate reached 328% in 1983, and could hit 2,000% this year. Although the treasury is bare and foreign banks have been calling for a solution to Bolivia's $3.4 billion foreign debt, the country has yet to take the hard measures that would permit...
...would be replaced and who was upset that John Paul was allegedly considering loosening the church's prohibition on artificial birth control; Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank, who is said to have been scheduled for immediate removal; Roberto Calvi, president of Banco Ambrosiano, who faced ruin if his trickery with Vatican funds was discovered; Michele Sindona, the Sicilian banker who knew about the Vatican Bank's alleged laundering of Mafia money; Licio Gelli, grand master of P2, which is supposed to have boasted some 100 Vatican members; and last but not least, the late John...
...consider as second rate the achievements of those who win this summer. I am proud of this country's athletes and recognize their hard work and extraordinary ability. While I am sympathetic toward those who will not be competing, I feel we should refuse to let the Soviets ruin our fun simply because they will not come out to play...
...convicted sexual harasser should not be revealed to the harassment victim is expressing something deeper than just paternalistic bias. To some extent, he is also implying that harassment is somehow "natural"--a weakness which the faculty member has succumbed to, but which should not be allowed to ruin his career or otherwise affect the past of his life. Dzeich and Weiner show how the pervasive myths about college women's beauty, voluptuousness and often sexual looseness, in fiction and is much academic office chatter, help give professors this impression that the young women in their classes are somehow there...