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Some of the worst-case scenarios described above were averted by simply closing the Jeffries speech to the press. Without non-student media coverage, and especially without television coverage, the event was much less likely to spiral out of control. And if it did get out of control, Harvard officials would get an opportunity to put their spin on the story before it hit the streets...
...museum's spiral-shaped building on Fifth Avenue will reopen in May after two years of restoration and expansion. The $48 million project will increase exhibition space by two-thirds, even though critics charge that a new, 10- story annex designed by Gwathmey & Siegel detracts from the Wright building's architecture. At the same time, the Guggenheim will unveil a fully funded $5.5 million exhibition and office space in New York's SoHo district, designed by Arata Isozaki. To help pay for the flagship expansion -- and additional storage facilities -- the Guggenheim floated $54.9 million in tax- exempt bonds...
Pessimists, on the other hand, are ready to conclude that California is over the hill, descending a spiral of environmental, fiscal and social calamities. There is even a group of so-called declinists, like UCLA economist David Hensley, whose downward forecasting has been caricatured by others as a Blade Runner vision of economic stagnation, environmental plunder, surging crime and ethnic conflict...
There is ample blame to go around in the wearying spiral of Yugoslavia's bloody demise, but most Western observers believe that Milosevic, 49, deserves the lion's share. Of the former communists still in power in Eastern Europe, Milosevic is the least reconstructed, presiding over a government and a party still largely unpurged, both in terms of ideology and personnel, from the bad old days when it enjoyed a power monopoly. His regime is a nest of paradoxes. While wielding more personal power within his republic than any other Yugoslav leader, he faces a stronger opposition press than...
Bankers aren't equipped to decide, and many are tormented over what to do next. Some refuse to throw more money into a losing business, but experts warn that such a policy can cost more than it saves. "A hotel operation can go quickly into a graveyard spiral if some action isn't taken," says Laurence Geller, who runs a hotel advisory firm in Chicago...