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...beginning to fear that too many thrifts may be forgetting the painful lessons of the recession. Lenders are once again making longterm, fixed-rate mortgages, for example, to take advantage of the spread between the relatively high interest rates on mortgages and the lower interest that depositors get. Says Saul B. Klaman, president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks: "A policy of making and holding such loans in volume amounts to playing Russian roulette with interest rates and the future of the institution...
...lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning out narrow-minded, unenthusiastic graduates who have little perspective on the facts they have swallowed. After conducting a survey at Stanford, Medical Professor Saul Rosenberg concluded that medical students are widely perceived as "aggressive, competitive, narrow, dishonest, unfriendly individuals, in other words, nerds...
...squire, Sancho Panza, are the most recognizable duo in all of fiction. The lecturer traces their "long shadow" through the works of such disparate men as Dickens, Flaubert and Tolstoy. Had he ventured only a little further, he might have found quixotic elements in the books of Saul Bellow, John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov...
Driefontein's resistance to the draconian program had an unlikely leader in Saul Mkhize, 48, a quiet, slender accountant. He owned the land that his grandfather had settled in 1912, when 300 black families pooled their resources to purchase a 6,000-acre tract. But in 1981 the government announced that it needed all the land in Driefontein to build a dam. To show that they were serious, officials arrived to paint numbers on the heart-shaped gravestones in the Driefontein cemetery in preparation for moving the remains. Mkhize and his neighbors protested vigorously, insisting that they owned...
...jumped from the van with a shotgun and declared he would shoot. As the crowd dispersed, Nienaber fired, shooting Mkhize fatally in the chest. The police claimed that Nienaber acted in self-defense, but public outrage over the killing has swept South Africa. Says Civil Rights Activist Josie Adler: "Saul was not a radical. He just wanted to keep his land...