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...college students can use the Law School's pint-size, dilapidated gym for no charge, but the Business School's spacious, modern facility is strictly off-limits. I guess doddering B-School deans feel we're too immature to play squash with tomorrow's inside traders...
...common folk have to wait as long as ten years for a private automobile, party officials are whisked around in chauffeur-driven black Volga sedans and Chaika limousines. A separate lane is reserved for them on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a major Moscow artery. Those within the charmed circle are allotted spacious apartments and can loll about at weekend dachas in the countryside. They even have exclusive hospitals, where the care is far superior to that in ordinary institutions...
...addition to several clubs in the downtown area, Club Waterloo, the most popular night spot, is a 15-minute ride away. Waterloo is an old mansion whose spacious grounds become transformed into possibly the largest singles' bar in the Carribean each evening. The specialty there is the Hurricane, a sweet-tasting drink with a kick stronger than...
...partners are "getting along extremely well," Turner says, relaxing in a stuffed chair in his spacious Atlanta office, cluttered with silver trays, banners and other memorabilia. But he admits that the restraints often chafe. "My hands are absolutely tied. This is not my company anymore." The board has scotched some of Turner's ideas (like a proposal to buy the Financial News Network, and another to lease part of New York City's Pan Am Building and emblazon it with the CNN logo). But it approved one of his boldest moves: the October 1988 launch...
...events that have shaken the Soviet bloc in 1989, none is more fraught with history -- or more implausible -- than the polite encounter that will take place this week in Vatican City. There, in the spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II. Before delivering formal speeches in the presence of their entourages, the two East Europeans will sit down alone to chat in Russian without interpreters...