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...outraged by the continued presence of Confederate flags in Kirkland and Cabot Houses. The flag is symbolic of a disgraceful and profoundly ugly chapter in American history, the era of slavery...
...company's assets are worth only $2.8 billion. To avoid costly litigation that would drain the firm's remaining assets, Pollack last week secured a tentative accord from the key parties to slash their claims 90%, to $2 billion. If the agreement stands, Drexel could soon emerge from Chapter 11 and resume business...
...number of other personal experiences went into the book. As a junior high school student, Wolf was anorexic, as were many of her peers. She has combined those painful memories with alarming statistics in a chapter about eating disorders titled "Hunger," which argues that those ailments can be traced to a "cult of thinness" inculcated into women at an early age. Girls will continue to starve, she warns, until they are made to feel valuable with or without the excuse of beauty...
Originally envisioned as part of the earlier volume (sections of chapter one appeared last May in Time), Moscow and Beyond details Sakharov's struggles against the Soviet regime after Mikhail Gorbachev released the physicist and his wife in late December, 1986. The book opens with their return to Moscow amid a frenzy of interviews with journalists and meetings with foreign diplomats...
...first chapter, Sakharov, who died a few months after the book's completion, describes his initial misgivings about Gorbachev and glasnost. "Glasnost, thank goodness, is continually breaking new ground...[But]...the gap between word and deed has been growing," Sakharov writes. "Gorbachev and his close associates themselves may still not have completely thrown off the prejudices and dogmas of the system they inherited...