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...first night of the gulf-war ground assault, Army artillery Captain Jeffrey Davis helped pour hundreds of rounds of high explosives into Iraqi positions. A month later, he was feted in a triumphal Stateside victory parade. Last week Captain Davis, 29, a seven-year veteran from Wyalusing, Pa., was facing unemployment, squeezed from the Army by declining defense budgets. "I served well," said Davis, who had dreamed of a military career. "Now I hope I can compete in the real world...
...caution, however, that hastily written rules, even if they are produced with the best of intentions, can backfire. The Orphan Drug Act, for instance, was passed in 1983 to encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases. The law provides an extra economic incentive, in the form of a seven-year monopoly, to companies that market products for maladies that afflict fewer than 200,000 people. Though it has done some good, it has also been widely blamed for the outrageous prices of certain medications, including aerosolized pentamidine for AIDS patients, and for allowing some companies to make a killing...
...seven-year stint there was a series of explosions. For one thing, she is, as she says in a rare understatement, "physical." Paglia throws punches. She kicks people twice her size. Once she even called the president of the college to inform her that she was about to kick an obnoxious male student. Fine, said the president, who was new on the job and probably thinking in metaphors. Paglia landed one that sent the fellow sprawling in the cafeteria. Says the woman warrior: "Committees were always convening over me." After leaving Bennington in 1979 -- one tiff too many -- she struggled...
...retailer's founder and chief executive, Victor Incendy, disappeared last week, two days before a scheduled meeting at which he had promised to reply to accusations that his clothes-and-cosmetics empire was built on phantom stores and phony figures. The episode is a bizarre end to the spectacular seven-year rise of Cascade, which had regularly reported annual sales gains of 40% or more from a chain of stores with such names as Boutiques Allison and Fran's Fashions...
...delicate moment. In 1990 kidnappers threatened to harm American hostages if the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel continued. A favorable vote on Capitol Hill could unravel months of careful diplomacy by U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. Last week the prospects for an end to the seven-year- old hostage insanity looked more promising than ever. In exchange for the release of 51 prisoners and nine bodies, Israel received firm confirmation from the pro-Iranian Hizballah of the death of one of its seven missing servicemen and inconclusive evidence of the death of another. Through a separate channel...