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...daily interval and yet they have no problem accepting the fact that they are engaged in something that appears treasonable to all but the most trained observer. That doesn't make any sense. What kind of benefits exist as compensation for this depression era job security? The scenario in La Femme Nikita is more plausible. Do a nasty deed, get blackmailed into doing several more, only for the good guys this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memo to Movieland: `Marshals' Hard to Digest | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

...people cease telling us to imagine and start telling us to analyze, and most of us do just that. But today, some imagination will be crucial to understand what we are about to explain. So pull out that rusty old dream machine and imagine, if you will, the following scenario...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tenure Odyssey | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

This is an all-too-familiar scenario for many Harvard students whose parents, for one reason or another, have remained...attached. The majority of students are finished with curfews and other embarrassing tokens of parental supervision after high school. Some are not so lucky. Some continue to live their college lives under the watchful eye of their parents. All such parents are not the same, but they can be roughly classified into four types: the Overprotective Parent, the Control Freak, the Parent Who's Living Vicariously, and the Nosey Parent. Admittedly, the above parenting disorders are closely related and often...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: Family Ties: When They Just Won't Let Go | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

Whatever the scenario, it seems to me that we haven't heard the last of Bill Paxon...

Author: By Jim Cocola, | Title: Billy the Kid | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...scenario then is predictable and crushing: Currency traders will take one look at the over-valued rupiah and exchange rupiah for U.S. dollars. "By pegging the rupiah," explains Baumohl, "Indonesia has promised to buy those rupiah with U.S. dollars--at the inflated price." Indonesia's reserves of foreign currency, vital to a nation's economic health, will quickly shrink. And traders, smelling more trouble, will dump even more rupiah, guaranteeing an economic meltdown. "In no time," says Baumohl, "the Indonesian government is bankrupt, and the economy collapses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women and Children Last | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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