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...academic year, students paid a $584 user fee and could opt for a $600 insurance plan offered through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The user fee was up 6 percent from $550 in 1991-92. The cost of the insurance increased less--just eight dollars since...
...Pennsylvania Blue Shield spokesman, explaining howe the company, which pays medical claims for smoking-related illnesses, justified buying $10 million worth of securities in Philip Morris. That was before the stock plunged on Friday...
...Serbs say I'm a human shield," the general conceded in an interview conducted by ham radio. "Yes, I am a shield. I will remain in Srebrenica as long as I consider the safety of the inhabitants at risk." Those were brave words from a soldier who up to then had had few admirers. He had drawn criticism from the U.N. contingent in the Bosnian capital for hobnobbing with Serbian militia chiefs, like Ratko Mladic, dubbed the "Butcher of Sarajevo," and for not forthrightly denouncing Serbian aggression. His orders from the U.N. were not to use force...
...debts to Picasso raise a certain irony. Starting around 1907, Picasso got a whole repertoire of forms from African art; Lam took some of them -- the shield masks, the displacement and distortion of limbs -- as a means of reconnecting with his own African inheritance. He was not the first "provincial" to discover in Paris a means of using his local identity; he took what he needed (not only from Picasso but also from Max Ernst and much lesser figures like Hans Bellmer, and even from Jean Cocteau's hypermannered / line drawings) to find what he was. Lam's version...
...Fenerlis knows, the baseball hat has many purposes. The inside of a cap can offer a haven to shield the hairless or those who have become follicularly challenged. Khoi T. Luu '94 says he has been wearing a baseball hat recently to cover his mostly barren head...