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Harvard used finesse to outlast the Lions in the second game, exposing Columbia's suspect middle with a steady diet of dinks from Wallace and Wanita Lopeter, who turned in another strong performance. The Crimson strung together the game's final six straight points to cruise...
...destruction and rape abound. Saddam, who knows that such reports undermine his claim to have restored law-and-order in Kuwait, has introduced summary trial and execution for looters. Hamza Hendawi, a Reuters correspondent who escaped from Kuwait last week, reports that as a warning to thieves, Iraqi forces strung up the body of an executed lieutenant colonel on a crane and left it dangling outside Kuwait's municipal headquarters. A placard around the corpse's neck read HE STOLE THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. Beneath the body were piled stolen clothes and electrical goods. According to the Washington Post...
Barrera and Hernandez may not share lines, but they do share the gift of stage presence. Hernandez, as Huml's molested secretary, has perfect delivery and a touch for deadpan. Barrera, with her expressive face and quiet control, is well cast as the repressed, high strung social scientist...
Sobered by the sight of beleaguered billionaires and the collapse of corporate empires strung out on debt, U.S. consumers are hunkering down. They are borrowing less, shopping carefully and saving more. During the first six months of 1990, according to the Department of Commerce, consumer spending growth was flat. At the same time, consumer debt rose at an annual rate of only 3%, down from 7.6% in 1989 and 8.5% in 1988. Edward Hyman, chief economist at C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Granfel, a Manhattan brokerage firm, predicts a virtual standstill in consumer borrowing for the next 12 months, a phenomenon...
Only twice in American history, he contends, did the rich gain so much: during the Gilded Age of the 1880s and the Roaring Twenties. Both periods were followed by countermovements: William Jennings Bryan's populism and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. "Only for so long will strung-out $35,000-a-year families enjoy magazine articles about the hundred most successful businessmen in Dallas or television programs about the life-styles of the rich and famous," he writes ominously. "And the discontents that arise go well beyond lower-class envy or the anticommercial bias of academe...