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...Prince Turki affair reveals just how low Harvard will sink in its refusal to weigh financial gain against ethical propriety. If Harvard didn't know about the prince's past, it should have. Now that it does, it should give back the money and send Prince Turki packing...
...reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain was being asked to weigh in as a countervailing force to Germany, which has Europe's most powerful economy. Even the French have been quietly but assiduously courting the British. Prior to unification day in Germany, a balance existed among West Germany, France and Britain, each with about the same populations, relative wealth...
...told my comrades, "We've achieved our goal. Maybe the Americans have learned their lesson. Now they have the time to think it over and weigh the consequences...
Meanwhile, federal prosecutors are doing some lobbying of their own. They filed a sealed report last week asking Wood to consider at least some of the dozens of other allegations against Milken that the government dropped in its plea-bargain agreement. Judges are free to weigh dismissed counts in reaching a sentence. But if Wood does decide to review the dropped charges, Milken has the right to defend himself at a hearing that could add months to the sentencing process...
...Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the main culprits are wild boars, descendants of animals imported to North Carolina in 1912 for hunting. The boars weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as well for oriental bittersweet, a vine imported to control erosion. It is strangling trees. Says park resource specialist Keith Langdon: "Once it gets a grasp on the land, it doesn't relinquish...