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What makes Lebanon's current predicament more hopeless than ever is the disintegration of the presidency. Somehow the office had survived previous crises nominally intact as the main symbol of Lebanese nationhood. But when President Amin Gemayel's six-year term expired in September, factional disputes prevented parliament from electing a successor. As his final act, Gemayel named General Michel Aoun, 53, commander of the mainly Christian Lebanese Army, to head an interim government. Muslim groups rejected Aoun and set up their own government headed by Gemayel's last Prime Minister, Selim Hoss...
...year that the Harvard men's squash team's six-year national championship reign came...
...just after finishing a six-year term in the Senate, Evans is once again taking a breather from the rough and tumble world of politics. This time, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government is his place of retreat...
...office in Augusta, Ga., a receptionist crisply answers, "Godfather of Soul." But the boss can't come to the phone right now. James Brown, the self- styled Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, is 70 miles away in South Carolina's State Park Correctional Center, serving a six-year sentence...
While many experts say the deficit spending of the Reagan era has helped fuel a six-year recovery, those experts believe it will lead to future economic instability. Experts also say that the budget deficit has contributed to a deepening trade deficit, which threatens American industrial competitiveness abroad...