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...fund's bailouts in Asia will be money down the drain unless its prescriptions become permanent reforms. For that the region will need strong political leaders who are willing to battle the alliance of bureaucrats, business and labor interests that benefited from the old system. Asian governments have been resisting the details in IMF rescues. The bailout of Indonesia has been slowed by the reluctance of officials to act against firms connected to the children of President Suharto...
...sifting the world's disorder. It was making sense of random agglomerations of things, unconscious postures of the body. (In all his drawings and paintings of his wife Phyllis, you only rarely get the sense that she was actually posing.) Every painter has favorite shapes and gestures, which, unless they encounter some resistance, can turn into mannerisms. Diebenkorn's style certainly grew some mannerisms, but drawing--the continuous friction against obdurate motifs--prevented them from getting ingrown, turning into tics...
...federal sources, is that once the investigation is closed, FBI agents will be hamstrung in their ability to pursue other, potentially more serious questions about fund-raising activities by Clinton or Gore. Justice lawyers have insisted that FBI agents cannot fish around in the affairs of high-level officials unless there is an open investigation and "predication," meaning a specific basis for believing that the person under scrutiny may have broken a law. The dialing-for-dollars case had provided the FBI with a hook to ask extensive questions about fund raising by Clinton and Gore...
...Almost no one expected the court to stop a film already screened and lauded by President Clinton, and which may turn out to be an eloquent companion to his "national dialogue on race." The judge will nonetheless decide the merits of Chase-Riboud's case ? unless the lawyers reach agreement first...
...vote yesterday would allow Harvard Dining Services to serve grapes of any kind, effectively ending a 1992 ban on table grapes. A "no" vote would keep the fruit out of dining halls, unless HDS was able to secure a contract with an organization supported by the UFW, which is fighting for better wages and treatment for grape-pickers...