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Roby residents have reason to be suspicious of their good luck, which has been unfamiliar lately. Misfortunes have descended with biblical force: a three-year drought, a continuing plague of boll weevils and crashing cattle prices. Twenty-eight winners were farmers or ranchers, and three-fourths of them were in deep financial trouble. "In June they were fixing to come get our stuff," says Kathy Terry of the bankers who hold the notes on their farm. "We've kept it going only because we got a loan from my dad. My husband was already looking around for other work." Manuel...
...single transferable voting system, all candidates are ranked and the last-place finisher is eliminated. That person's votes are redistributed to whoever was second on those ballots. The process continues until there is one winner...
While titles for the new system are few and far between, the vast technical superiority of the system makes it a sure winner for years to come. The graphics and sound on the new Nintendo are, put simply, better than anything in home gaming history...
...paying more attention to East Timor lately as well. In the last few weeks, at least two editorials about East Timor have appeared on the oped page of The New York Times, including one yesterday by Carlos Ximenes Belo, the Catholic bishop of East Timor who was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize...
...deal was a major success for Legacy: the offer price of $6 a share gave the struggling software house a market capitalization of more than $14 million on a fully diluted basis. Perhaps the biggest winner was an obscure Monaco company called EBC Trust. Some months before the deal, EBC provided a loan to Legacy to keep it going, and is now one of the company's biggest single stockholders, with millions of dollars in paper profits...