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...Politicians and regulators are likely to be more cautious about allowing banks to enter different fields. In fact, some reregulation of banks may result. St Germain plans to hold hearings in September on the Continental bailout, which he believes shows why banks should be forbidden to expand too far afield...
...pursuit of political philosophy has led some men far afield it took Plato to Syracuse. Rousseau to Geneva, and Marx to London. For Michael J. Sandel, it has led from the halls of Oxford University to the Soldiers Field softball diamond...
...knit pullover colored wine red and gold, the official city colors. The policewomen were enthusiastic, the press enchanted. Gucci created a leather blouson and helmet that looked as if it belonged on a Flash Gordon storm trooper. The Fendi sisters, working as usual with Karl Lagerfeld, went far afield from their luxury furs and submitted a striking winter woolen overcoat with a storm cape that the Brontë sisters might have worn for a brisk constitutional on the moors. The other contenders-Milan's Mila Schön, and the Fontana Sisters of Rome-also made impressive showings...
Burger did not have to go far afield for an example of the invocations he endorsed. Each session of the high bench opens with a clerk proclaiming: "God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...Fraser, is one of those who changed Reagan's life, and he will never forget it. Fraser not only formed a drama club but urged his student writers to turn their imaginations loose. "I developed a great taste for writing then," recalled Reagan. "I sometimes went way afield and did a humorous twist on what he asked for. I wasn't long in noticing he would have several of those read in class, and I was always called upon to read mine. Maybe that's where the ham began. I would write with the idea that...