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Hardly the stuff of command councils or the KGB, Clark's letter reads more like the windy babble of a high school principal. (Only an administrator would employ circumlocutory phrases like "failed to exhibit.") Most people would have appreciated the warning, but not the CCR. The mere prospect that its members would be held accountable for their actions was enough to send everyone into a frightened panic...
...that the price will go down before the stocks must be bought on the market and returned to the lender. The Feshbach brothers of Palo Alto, Calif. - Kurt, Joseph and Matthew - have become the leading short sellers in the U.S., with more than $500 million under management. The Feshbachs command a staff of about 60 employees and claim to have earned better returns than the Dow Jones industrial average for most of the 1980s. And, they say, they owe it all to the teachings of Scientology, whose "war chest" has received more than $1 million from the family...
...presidential bedroom telephone, Oval Office and Cabinet Room. The author provides excerpts from now public transcripts of meetings during the Cuban missile crisis. Kennedy's tentative behavior on the tapes of initial meetings, writes Beschloss, does "not quite bear out later claims . . . that this was a President superbly in command of the crisis from the start...
Harvard (11-2 overall, 6-0 Ivy) took immediate command of the contest, never allowing Dartmouth (5-8, 1-5) to establish any semblance of momentum. After midfielder Becky Gaffney won the opening draw, attacker Sarah Downing scooped up the ball, sprinted through several onlooking Big Green defenders and rifled a shot into the upper righthand corner...
When Miss Saigon opened in London in 1989, it had two stars, Lea Salonga as Kim and Jonathan Pryce as the Engineer. The Broadway production has three. Pryce and Salonga are repeating (indeed, enhancing) their West End triumphs. She is incandescently in command of the stage; he still gets the sardonic laughs owed to his Dickensian lampoon of a conniver, yet has transmuted him into a full-blown tragic figure, a victim of global politics all the sadder for being so streetwise. They are joined in the spotlight by Willy Falk in the role of Kim's G.I. lover, Chris...