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Nachtwey does not discount the risks he takes. "I've had close calls on "almost every assignment, and was wounded by a land mine in El Salvador in 1982," he says. "After a while, you tend not to think about the danger. But when a first-rate photographer is killed, as Newsweek's John Hoagland was in El Salvador in March, that's when you realize the great degree of risk we all court. Hoagland was no cowboy. Almost none of us is. The Robert Capa medal doesn't reward cowboys. It is given for practicing...
...sponsor of last weekend's matches, the Eastern Rugby Union, has arranged a 20 percent discount with World Airways on plane fare, but even with the discount each rugger will have...
...March that service to New York City's corporate customers has declined, but said they intend to bring it back to normal levels by July. With a backlog of 20,000 orders, there is now a wait of up to six weeks for high-volume discount wide-area telecommunications service (WATS) lines and 800 numbers, vs. five to 15 days last year...
...half hours, and few have survived longer than a day. This ripping of posters is a very real and serious form of psychological violence. To participate in it or simply to stand silently by is to wage psychological warfare against other members of the Harvard/Radcliffe community. To discount the effect of these selectively violent actions is to be blind to the power of psychological abuse. And psychological abuse, if allowed to escalate, frequently leads to physical violence...
...billion. The budget gap may stall the economic recovery by pushing up interest rates. Last week banks raised the prime rate that they charge corporate customers from 11.5% to 12%, the second rise in three weeks. The Federal Reserve Board reinforced the trend by raising the discount rate it charges on loans to banks from...