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...Skansi and other coaches, there are more immediate concerns as the tournament moves into the single elimination medal round this week. Can anyone stop Lithuania's Sarunas Marciulionis? Will Brazil's Oscar Schmidt ever forgo a three-point shot for a pass to a teammate? Will U.S. forward Charles Barkley keep his elbows to himself? The answers are: no, no and most definitely not. "Charles is Charles," says Michael Jordan. "He's not crazy. He just likes to push his behavior to the edge." Jordan and his teammates have been trying to push it back, with only modest success. When...
...however, the Latin countries have been negotiating agreements under which their creditors agreed to accept smaller repayments. The countries in return enacted economic reforms, chiefly steps to control inflation and open up to foreign investment. Last week Brazil, the last major Latin and biggest Third World debtor, worked out an arrangement with 19 banks representing 300 private creditors. The lenders will choose among six different ways to ease Brazil's burden of $44 billion owed to private banks. Those electing to take smaller payments of principal or interest will get Brazilian government guarantees that they really can collect the remaining...
Brundtland traveled to Harvard's Commencement straight from the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, Brazil where she gave the keynote address. When her selection as speaker was announced in April, Harvard Alumni Association Executive Director John P. Reardon Jr. '60 called Brundtland a "catalyst, a mover on environmental issues...
...undermining the global get-together in Brazil...
...championing the biodiversity treaty, Scandinavian countries have imposed stiff taxes to discourage energy consumption, and Japan has sharply boosted its environmental aid to developing nations. At Reilly's press conference, one reporter impudently mentioned that Japan's pledge of $200 million to help clean up a single bay in Brazil was more than the $150 million in new money that the U.S. has offered for forest protection around the entire world...