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...come all ye faithful, ye clever and wise. Who all through the year lend The Crimson your eyes. To you we offer our biggest salute: Happy Holidays and have ye a good year to boot...
While anxiously waiting in Washington, U.S. officials debated whether it was feasible or even wise to plan reprisals against Shi'ite militants in Lebanon. "Whom would we hit and where?" asked a State Department official. Other groups, claiming to be associated with the Hizballah, are holding three Americans hostage in Lebanon: U.S. Diplomat William Buckley, first secretary of the embassy's political section; Cable News Network Correspondent Jeremy Levin; and Presbyterian Minister Benjamin Weir. Last week a fourth American disappeared: Peter Kilburn, a librarian at Beirut's American University. A retaliatory raid in Lebanon might seal their...
...board before 1980 because it was during the late 1970s that the bank made most of the $3 billion in reckless loans that led to its near collapse. The agency contends that the directors should have monitored more carefully what was going on at Continental. Ideally, corporate directors are wise and prudent overseers of an institution's full-time staff. But many of the country's 15,000 banks get only minimal supervision from their boards. In a poll released last week by Egon Zehnder International, a consulting firm, 29% of bankers surveyed said their boards of directors...
...viewer, is not exactly killing. Neither is the wit of the dialogue that Writer Michael Cristofer has concocted for the lovers on the rare occasions when they meet. It generally consists of inarticulate expressions of desire and feeble excuses for not consummating it. In this they may be wise, since neither of their spouses is presented as anything but good-natured and rather more patient with Frank and Molly's preoccupations than any audience is likely...
Much can be done to restrain both money power and television power. Wise laws, to take one example, can forbid the contribution of money to any candidate in one state from sources in any other state. Wise laws can conscript time from the networks to be shared evenhandedly between the major candidates. New laws can and must help. Yet, in the end, politics is the entry way to power, cruel or benign, and in our system...