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...women are busy shoveling horse droppings at the elite Thacher School, a 425-acre sprawl of corrals and classrooms that combines New England-style prep-school life with the ethos of Western ranching. As part of their regimen, students must feed the horses and muck out their stalls before breakfast. Some students grumble about the early-morning chores, but most of them ultimately embrace the school's central belief that a connection exists between caring for a horse and conquering calculus. "Before I came here, it never clicked with me that I'd have to clean out a stall," grimaces...
Although alumni anti-apartheid activists were encouraged by last year's results, they said yesterday that losses in the most recent election might stall efforts to force the University to divest of its $168 million in South Africa-related stocks...
Some credit Kohl for avoiding long, protracted processes that could stall the unification process and lead to further instability...
...final thought on saving. People are worried that if we save too much -- and spend too little -- we'll throw the economy into a stall. And there's something to this. (Not much, but something.) But the long-term solution to that isn't to save less; it's to work harder or smarter. That way, we can both save and spend more...
...week began, some diplomats were calling it the Big Pre-Summit Stall. Endgame, however, might have been a more accurate term. In a manner familiar to all negotiators who have ever raced a deadline, Soviet and American negotiators sought to extract the last possible concession before turning over a nuclear-weapons agreement for their chiefs, George Bush and Mikhail ; Gorbachev, to announce with a flourish at their summit meeting next week. But by the time Secretary of State James Baker left Moscow on Saturday, after four days of talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and a five-hour visit...