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...going to be strict about people sittingin their offices and watching the games," Gibsonsaid...
...Similar cutbacks will be required of a proposed Lufthansa-Scandinavian Air Services-United Airlines alliance, and the EU is expected later this year to set strict requirements for the European alliances planned by Delta and Northwest. With the importance of European markets growing amid Asia's decline, the battle for the continent's skies looks set to be the fiercest since...
...several occasions, small crowds boldly confronted policemen who tried to interfere with the fun. "You think you have power just because you have a walkie-talkie!" yelled a young man on a motorcycle, boldly taunting a bearded fundamentalist from the basij, a volunteer force responsible for upholding strict Islamic conduct. "You see how happy we are," said Vaheed Aghani, 20, born the year before Khomeini came to power, who was wearing a Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt. "Why should the government try to stop us?" Among the revelers was Ibrahim Yazdi, Khomeini's first Foreign Minister, ousted by Islamic militants after...
...School to the violence plaguing Northern Ireland to this day. One of his most disturbing but beautiful scenes occurs when the narrator watches the men of the neighborhood set bonfires to burn rats out of defunct air raid shelters. Imagine the wonders he can work when satirizing a sadistically strict math teacher or when describing the ghost of the narrator's little sister. Another ghost story, related by the narrator's aunt by way of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, gains spookiness in the retelling. And the sex talk kindly given the narrator by an avuncular priest, which leads...
...maintain, for example, a strict distinction between investing in stocks and trading them--and so should you. My hedge fund is divided into two roughly equal pools of money. The investing side is run in the old-fashioned Benjamin Graham-Warren Buffett tradition of seeking value, mainly among small stocks like savings and loans. Here I approach each investment as if I'm buying the company: I carefully research the financials, management, customers and competitors. I don't have to know when the stock price will rise, only that it will. I don't talk about it much, but historically...