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...Vernon Loucks, the CEO of Baxter International Inc., has come under attack recently after his company pleaded guilty to violating U.S. trade laws and giving economic information to the Arab League in 1985 in order to be removed from the league's list of companies to be boycotted...
...Levin was a candidate from the beginning of the search, according to Vernon R. Loucks Jr., a senior trustee on the Yale Corporation. Loucks said that Levin emerged as the front-runner after a field of hundreds was narrowed to three earlier this month, the Associated Press reported...
...prosperity, upward social mobility, increased access to property -- has lifted most of them into the middle class and deprived socialist parties of their natural electoral base. "As a result of economic changes, the working class all over the West has been shrinking since the 1960s," says Oxford University lecturer Vernon ) Bogdanor. "The old icons, the old ideology are outmoded." That leads some observers to pronounce the movement dead. "It's finished," says French social philosopher Jean-Francois Revel. "It was a great intellectual adventure that turned out to be a historical parenthesis...
...Waco cult is the product of an apocalyptic theology, refined over decades by a succession of zealous but nonviolent splinter groups, that was seized at last by a charismatic and combustible leader. The son of a single mother, Koresh was born Vernon Howell in Houston in 1959. Growing up in the Dallas area, he was an indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan...
...There were people who'd been coming for years who considered this a second home. But more people said they hoped I'd clean it up," said Vernon, who did keep the video and pinball games, which seems to keep many customers coming back...