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...recoup his costs. Says Turin: "There are always people willing to go." Recently, as darkness fell on Miches, Turin and his assistants and bodyguards whisked through the town, picking up passengers from safe houses and taking them to a gathering point on the beach. He was expecting a new batch of Italian immigrants, but they never appeared. A group of Koreans arrived but decided to take a different boat...
...newest batch of coffee-klatch sitcoms, however, no one seems to be doing much of anything except hanging out. On Friends--which has entered the Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City...
Princeton's strength comes from the depth of its team as well as its stars. This year Harvard has attempted to match Princeton's depth with a batch of freshman stars...
...have urged President Clinton to buy more B- 2s because, they wrote in a Jan. 4 letter, ``the end of the cold war was neither the end of history nor the end of danger.'' Furthermore, B-2 builder Northrop Grumman has quite a deal for the Pentagon: the new batch of radar- eluding, batwinged planes will cost just a fraction of what the first...
Northrop claims that it can build the next 20 planes for $11.4 billion, or $570 million each. That is well below the $2.2 billion that each of the first 20 B-2s cost. Even minus their hefty development cost, the first batch cost more than $1 billion a plane. But Northrop's new price tag is dubious, and the bargain questionable. Defense experts expect the final price to balloon. More important, U.S. taxpayers could be buying a flying white elephant with scant strategic value because the key weapons it requires to justify the investment don't exist...