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Arias, who considers former U.S. President John F. Kennedy '40 to be his idol, is a member of the wealthiest coffee trading family in Costa Rica. He further urged his audience to take control of their world by saying, "You will live most of your lives in the next century. The history of humanity has not known a single century of peace. The opportunity for writing a different history belongs to you... You will have to change 20 centuries of war into a century of peace...
...Senate's wealthiest members, Heinz had been an unlikely champion of unions, the aged and the disabled. After retiring from the Senate in 1984, Tower served as a U.S. arms negotiator and chaired the three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-contra affair. In 1988, George Bush nominated him for Secretary of Defense, touching off a bruising fight between Congress and the White House. Amid rumors of hard drinking and womanizing, - Tower was voted down by the Senate, 53 to 47, the first time in 30 years that a President had been denied a Cabinet choice...
Thus far, the world's wealthiest university has been unwilling to allocate the necessary funds, although one suspects that a 10 percent cut in the Business School's gardening budget would more than pay for the entire program. Those wishing to see this empowering training offered at Harvard are encouraged to write to the new Harvard president, Neil L. Rudenstine, at Holyoke Center, and to call Model Mugging at (617) 232-7900. Such training may help us survive long enough to build a less violent America. Brian Palmer Resident Tutor, Quincy House
...scaling down their tastes, most Americans are making a virtue out of necessity. Contrary to perceptions, the past decade was an era of downward mobility for the majority of U.S. families, who kept up their spending by borrowing and relying on two incomes. Only the wealthiest 20% of Americans significantly increased their real income during the Reagan era, and the poor slipped further behind. After adjustment for inflation, the national standard of living has actually fallen since 1973; the real average hourly pay for U.S. workers has gone from $8.55 then to $7.54 today. Says Barry Bosworth, an economist...
...colleagues in the Communist Party and the KGB are expected to do everything they can to derail Yeltsin's presidential campaign. Even without a popular mandate as leader of Russia, Yeltsin has been challenge enough in Gorbachev's eyes. As the elected head of government in the largest, wealthiest republic, he would be a Kremlin nightmare...