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...fact, the only thing stricken students have in common is their nausea. Asked how he felt, one first-year responded: "Like shit...
...leaders will eventually ascend to the national stage or whether that kind of leadership -- on the grand scale ! -- has become impossible. One can only cite the hopeful example of Regina Benjamin, a rural physician whose rather modest original goal was to help solve the local doctor shortage in poverty-stricken Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Practicing there for a while convinced her of the need to know something about business. While earning her M.B.A. at Tulane University, she unearthed an obscure federal rule that would provide government money to qualified rural health clinics. Suddenly, in addition to her medical chores...
...magazine's description of the 40-year-old economist raved, "Jeffrey Sachs is to ailing economies what Albert Schweitzer was to disease-stricken backwaters...
...their joint Desilu production company, while Ball persevered, starring in another top-rated sitcom, The Lucy Show. "There's no way I'm going to stay here and become Mr. Ball," said Arnaz early on. If anyone in this immensely readable book fits the unlikely description of misery-stricken sitcom star...
Moscow took quick, drastic steps to ease investors and panic-stricken Russians who dumped their national currency in exchange for durable goods and dollars as the ruble lost a quarter of its value yesterday. President Boris Yeltsin promptly sacked Finance Minister Sergei Dubinin and moved to fire the Central Bank chairman, Viktor Gerashchenko. He made it clear that he suspected foul play, calling the ruble's plunge an act "of sabotage or the manifestation of a policy of extreme irresponsibility and slovenliness by the special groups of people...