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...sing and kid his sometimes prissy mate. She acknowledges her unpopularity in her own country and scoffs at the criticism from some quarters that she has put on airs. And she points to continuing threats from both the left and the right. "In the center of this gigantic whirlwind is the person closest to me," she says. "Will we be able to come out of the whirlwind with honor?" There is now some hope...
...SECRET that Harvard students are competitive. And although it is fashionable to say that what we learn is more important, grades do matter. Good grades can mean high-paying jobs, scholarships, prizes and admission to the best grad schools. But would leaving us to ourselves initiate a whirlwind of cheating? I think...
...there some innovation so radical, or some capitulation so abject, that he simply couldn't get away with it? Like scientists pondering the limits of an anomalous but potent force of nature, Kremlinologists speculated about the existence of a "red line" that Gorbachev could not cross without reaping the whirlwind...
...resignations came after a whirlwind week in which the trading scandal grew to menace the health, and possibly the very existence, of the 81-year-old firm. The trouble began Aug. 9, when Salomon said it had suspended managing directors Paul Mozer and Thomas Murphy and two other employees. Their major misdeed: violating federal rules against acquiring more than 35% of Treasury notes and bonds at a government auction. The ceiling is designed to prevent large firms like Salomon from purchasing enough of an issue to dictate the price of the securities when they resell them to smaller buyers...
...reach a fifty-fifty ratio of Kuwaitis to foreigners by the year 2000 (vs. the 30-to-70 ratio before the Iraqis rolled in). The invasion has made the government more loudly determined than ever to reach that goal -- but getting there will probably prove impossible. After a whirlwind shopping spree in the Far East, a Sabah woman turned up at the airport last week with 40 servants in tow. "I have replaced my Arabs with Asians," she said proudly. She will not be the last...