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While the debt bomb has still to be defused, its tick is much softer than before. "The international financial system has the capacity to handle the Latin American debt crisis," said Economist Arnaldo Musich, an unofficial adviser to Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Robert Solomon, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, agreed: "The countries can grow out of it. The world can grow...
...candidates have been quick to publicize that fact in an attempt to woo the support of the nation's powerful women's groups. No women are campaign managers or directors, but more than ever hold key secondtier posts. At a recent debate, the hopefuls went so far as to tick off their prominent female staff members. "I'll see you one press secretary, and raise you a treasurer," one candidate joked...
...hours tick away toward Feb. 7, and chores accomplished are crossed off lists, the easygoing mood of the late fall is changing to edgy watchfulness. Metal detectors are appearing in doorways, and if not all of them are connected yet, no one points this out to the unsmiling guards who gravely check their blank video screens, just for practice. Tomasek Juric, the impassive head of security who was once a bodyguard for Tito, flatly guarantees the safety of everyone who will be here. Even at the trials, his operatives were impressive; when someone among the Austrian downhillers...
...case of the Russian barbarians shooting down of the plane. We heard it even more in the case of Afghanistan, right? America was on strong moral grounds there. It squandered it all for what? For a little pipsqueak of a country that was no more than a little tick in its side. It's like paying a massive moral price for a reward that is worthless. Purely from a pragmatic, realistic point of view-seeing the moral strength the United States has vis-a-vis its would enemy Russia-it can't get up in the U.N. anywhere and talk...
...acknowledged that over the years pressures from Band seating and increasing tick ets sold to graduate students has decreased the number of good seats available to undergraduates. When the game is at Yale, students as well as alumni, have a better chance of getting good seats because the Yale bowl at 71,000 seats is almost twice as big as the Harvard stadium, Page said...