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Confronting insurance premiums, mortgage payments, large upkeep expenses and sky-high Cambridge property taxes, the D.U. is financially strapped, and unlike many of the other clubs, it has no endowment to fall back...
...Newt Gingrich -- according toa new inspirational tract available at bookstores everywhere-- had French inflation. The House Speaker's controversial book, "To Renew America," which went on sale today, is full of revelations, says TIME Daily's Robertson Barrett. Among them: When Newt's military dad was stationed in France, sky-high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America, the teenager vowed to change the world: "There was no moral choice except...
...Perez was impeached for corruption involving the misuse of public funds; he is currently on trial. In early 1993 the economy also took a sharp downturn. The crunch hit hardest at real- estate and construction companies. As they started to default, the banks attempted to compensate by offering sky-high interest rates--up to 18 percentage points above going levels--to attract new depositors and fresh funds. The most aggressive was Banco Latino. Within weeks of Banco Latino's takeover by the government, arrest warrants were issued for 82 of its directors and managers; many were believed to have fled...
...Condor he drives his motorcycle off a riverside pier and leaps off in midair to catch onto the net of a passing mechanical crane. (Page your stunt double, Mr. Seagal!) In Project A, improving on the clock-tower hanging scene from Lloyd's Safety Last, Chan falls from the sky-high tower through two awnings and crashes to earth-on his head. (Tiptoe away, Lloyd's of London...
Playoffs or not, All-Star or scrub, this mayhem has to stop, and with the sky-high salaries and egos of the modern ballplayer, harsh reactions are the only way it will...