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...over, it would say ($300 a share was preposterous), but the world is not going to end, and deals can still be done at other than fire-sale prices. If investors saw UAL shoot to 160 in a deal backed by America's most highly respected bank, greed would stir...
...that the whole basis of the House system? Our after-Christmas exams? The admissions process? Broccoli Walnut Tofu Stir...
...images still stir the spirit: multitudes, swathed in yellow, sweeping Corazon Aquino to power in the Philippines; Benazir Bhutto campaigning atop truck caravans in Pakistan; Violeta Chamorro, in a wheelchair, toppling Nicaragua's haughty Sandinista regime. In the past decade, no man has come to power as dramatically and as spectacularly as these women. For feminists everywhere, the rise of Aquino, Bhutto and Chamorro seemed to augur huge steps forward for societies usually characterized by unrelenting machismo. The images, however, were misleading...
...each loss or know when we have severed a vital link with nature? Observes noted paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould: "It would be a very bleak world with cockroaches and dogs and not much else." The final blessing of the Endangered Species Act is that it preserves the elements that stir man's sense of wonder. That benefit alone is too precious for the God Squad to barter away...
Even diplomats who generally favor a more influential role for Japan in world affairs are concerned. They are worried that the specter of Japanese troops operating outside the country might stir resentment abroad, especially in Asia, where the memory of Japanese conquest and occupation in World War II has yet to fade and resentment of Japanese wealth is widespread...