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...members fallen off the wagon, to confess they had succumbed to the lure of big returns from Russian investments on which--surprise!--the Yeltsin government has defaulted. Citicorp announced that its earnings for the third quarter will be cut by about $200 million in Russian losses. The price tag at Bankers Trust, about $260 million; at brokerage firm Salomon Smith Barney, $360 million in the past two months...
...sustained lying, suddenly choose honesty? His Slick Willie side has always known that the most important quality a politician can have is sincerity. And no politician is better at faking it than he is. In 1980 Clinton was a failed one-term Governor until he apologized for raising car-tag fees and got his wife to drop that fancy "Rodham" business with her name. In 1992 he became the Comeback Kid, miraculously saving a crashing candidacy by quickly apologizing for causing pain in his marriage. So why on Aug. 17 couldn't he live the lie a little bit longer...
...that they fear being overwhelmed with messages. (Which they will be, unless they set ground rules, and their patients cooperate.) So if you're lucky enough to have direct access to your physician via computer, don't abuse the privilege--or we could all wind up playing telephone tag forever...
...priciest colleges, the real cost, after all aid is factored in, is just under half the sticker price. That's for the theoretical average student, of course, and shouldn't be taken to mean that you can just lop half the cost off any college's price tag and expect to pay that amount. But it does mean that, as Deputy Secretary of Education Mike Smith says, "the resources are there." You need to find them, and you need to plan. "No matter how old your child is," says American Express's Satovsky, "saving for college is paramount...
...doubly lucky. Not only is it an elite university, but in January, Princeton announced it would begin to dip into its endowment (the nation's fourth richest, valued at nearly $5 billion) specifically to help students from middle-income families offset more of its $33,040 annual price tag. Since then, Yale, Stanford and M.I.T. have announced similar plans...