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...much as today's students are demonstrating against social injustice, they may also be protesting the fact that they are so often labeled credential-craving moneygrubbers. Yale Protest Organizer Tom Keenan, for one, argues that student idealism has not gone the way of the slide rule. Says he: "A sizable population of students is extremely discontented with the yuppie future and will take time in college to change things. These protests go some distance in disproving the idea that we're one homogeneous student body heading for business suits ." --By Richard Stengel. Reported by Cathy Booth/New York and Douglas Brew/Berkeley...
...confidence in the dollar would be destroyed." Other economists envision a slower but inexorable fall. Stephen Marris, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics, warns of a deep decline in the dollar's value extending over two to four years. As a sign that the dollar's slide will probably not turn into a free fall, the American currency's value strengthened at week...
...last week's meeting, amid acrimonious charges that some members were cheating the cartel by selling at cut-rate prices, OPEC's 13 members[*] tried desperately to halt the price slide. "Market stability is at the crossroads," admitted Subroto, Indonesia's Oil Minister and the current president of OPEC, at the start of the session. Yet the most that the ministers could agree on was minor adjustments like lowering OPEC's price for the heaviest grade of Saudi crude by a token 50?...
After playing third base for seven innings in the second game of a double-header against Cornell, the slugging freshman phenom entered a chain-link pen surrounded by Harvard fans to prepare for a potential slide from the hot corner to the pitching mound. And whether sitting or standing, an entire audience stopped to see exactly how hard the much-heralded green-horn could bring...
Confusing menus make this small slide-open handset tough to navigate, but images are crisp and vibrant, even as 4-by-6 glossies. It stores up to 500 photos and has a USB cable for quick transfers to your...