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...Celts seem to know their business. They have won 16 of 40 N.B.A. championships, including the 1985-86 title, and filled every seat in the Boston Garden for 279 consecutive games. Nonetheless, many Wall Street pros are betting against BOS, as the team is listed on the ticker. Share prices opened at 18½, slightly below the expected range of 19 to 21, and dribbled lower. By week's end, the score on the Big Board had dropped to 18¼. One reason: fears that since Boston is on top, the team and its stock have nowhere to go but down...
...diagrams in hand, was Architect Robert Leathers, 45, the Johnny Appleseed of the swing set. Over the past 15 years, Leathers has helped thousands of volunteers erect nearly 350 playgrounds in 24 states, ranging from pocket-size parks to a 1½-sq.-mi. recreation area, complete* with a 600-seat amphitheater, in Romulus, N.Y. "The attitude is what makes this work," says Leathers. "I love to see a whole family?a grandparent, a parent and a child?out there working. They've never had a chance to build something together like this...
...this a good thing for democracy? More than a few political hands are worried that the accelerated schedule is putting high-priced consultants and moneymen in the driver's seat, preventing candidates from figuring out their own answers to the question that famously stumped Teddy Kennedy in 1979: Why do you want to be President? The result could be a campaign that offers voters plenty of carefully managed themes but little in the way of policy solutions. "If what you're going to do all day every day is exhaust yourself running around, meeting with precinct leaders, raising money, there...
...From his seat in the tactical operations center, Army Lieutenant Colonel Edward Taylor can survey a wall-sized black-and-white satellite map of Baghdad. But that bird's-eye view will probably matter less than the two books on the table in front of him, as U.S. troops once again attempt to bring the city under control...
...candidates who will lead study groups with undergraduates are Kerry M. Healey ’82, former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and this past year’s unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate, and Nancy L. Johnson ’57, a former Republican congresswoman from Connecticut who lost her seat this November after serving for more than two decades. While it was a lean year for Republicans nationwide, the results of the election turned into a windfall for the non-partisan Institute of Politics. “Because this was a year that the Democrats did very well...