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...fund is in great danger of exhaustion, and we may all have to bear the brunt. My hunch is that at the rate the fund is shrinking, the banks don't have the resources to shore it up. We can raise the premiums they pay in, but that may just send more banks into ruin...
This time there are fewer illusions and no jaunty warriors or exultant emissaries. Television has brought the world into the galleries and to the White House. The foe is half a globe away, and the destructive forces gathered in the Saudi desert bear no comparisons to the minieball and grapeshot...
This year, the class of 1991, the first entire class to go through the New Pathway curriculum, graduates, and the report cards on the program are coming in. So far, most bear favorable marks...
Into the meeting walks my 43-year-old friend with two Harvard degrees, partner in a well-known investment bank that, like all investment banks, is cutting back. He runs a small department that should bear much fruit in the 1990s. It specializes in financing companies related to "the environment." It's exactly the kind of investment a company shouldn't trim unless it absolutely...
...fangs. The pace is funereal; the plot twists, pure gothic boiler plate. There's the fresh-faced governess who arrives at the mansion to tutor an eerily disturbed child; the slow-witted groundskeeper who is enslaved by the vampire (paging Dwight Frye); the 200-year-old paintings that -- gasp! -- bear a striking resemblance to present-day folk; the baffled reaction of doctors and police to mysterious deaths in the town ("Looks like some kind of wild animal tried to tear her throat out"). Cross has a suave-but-menacing manner ) so transparent that it wouldn't fool the family...