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...field for the 1992 presidential stakes is still thin, but handicappers are fixing odds on who will seek the Democratic nomination...
...sheen of utopian rhetoric is thin indeed. The very state that has laid claim to erasing religious tensions has, for the last half century, promoted anti-Semitism through vigorous campaigns against "cosmopolitanism," a euphemism for Jewish influence. The ultra-nationalist group Pamyat ("memory") and lesser known groups have recently taken the lead from the government in stirring up such antagonisms...
...million, threatens to expand further as enterprises come to the end of the interim period during which they had to keep underemployed workers on their payrolls. Some economists warn that half of the 8.5 million workers in the East could lose their jobs. Patience in the East is wearing thin: violence, including some directed against the small number of foreigners in the area, has been growing sharply...
...ponytail of the past, held back with an elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism: "How you wear your hair speaks of the inner self." The message may be simpler. For many men, it may just be "I don't have to put up with haircuts anymore." The tyke who protested when he was first lifted into a barber's chair may be the ponytailed...
...Kennedy School, which has not hired a minority faculty member in the past five years, has also had difficulty creating faculty mentors and implementing race-blind hiring policies. He attributed the problem to a candidate pool that he said was "remarkably thin on minorities." policies, Carnesale said. He attributed the problem to a candidate pool that he said was "remarkably thin on minorities...