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...could Japan surpass the U.S. in so many industries so quickly? That oft asked question receives an unusually thorough and thoughtful examination in Trading Places: How We Allowed Japan to Take the Lead (Basic Books; $19.95). Written by Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr., the counselor to the Secretary of Commerce for Japan Affairs between 1983 and 1986 and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, this "epic tale of reversal," as the author calls it, starts with Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri and chronicles its four-decade push toward economic victory...
Because of their different lifestyle, married students need special advising, and they receive it from Dudley House Senior Tutor John R. Marquand. Marquand, who advises all Dudley affiliates, says. "I'm not really qualified to be a marriage counselor, but I've been asked to advise on those matters. It is not really so different from talking about your boyfriend or girlfriend...
...College. With promises of a dazzling career, he persuaded her to drop out and enroll in a $5,000 "computer communications" course. She would qualify for a federally guaranteed student loan, she was told, if she would fake her age upward a year to 17. Though her school guidance counselor warned that she lacked the skills for such a program, Hernandez enrolled, only to quit when the going got too rough. Now receiving bills for $4,400 in outstanding loans, she baby-sits for a precarious living. "I just wasted my time," she says. "I didn't learn nothing" -- except...
Nofziger was convicted of appealing to then-presidential counselor Edwin Meese III in an April 8, 1982, memo for help getting Wedtech Corp. a $32 million no-bid Army contract...
...widening Wedtech scandal last week rippled closer to Attorney General Edwin Meese. In New York City, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani produced indictments charging an old Meese friend, his investment counselor and a former Wedtech adviser with racketeering and fraud. Among their alleged crimes: extracting illegal payments from Wedtech for trying to get Meese to help the ailing, minority-owned, Bronx-based construction firm...