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The mounting losses are shaking the foundations of the venerable institution, which started life in 1688 in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, where shipowners and merchants gathered to buy and sell insurance for their vessels and cargoes. Down the years, Lloyd's became pre-eminent in the field of marine insurance...
As one of Washington's pre-eminent power brokers slid through the remote corridors of the White House last week, he had three separate encounters with members of George Bush's staff. Each of them whispered, "Where is Nancy when we need her?"
The son of two journalists, Morrow began writing for TIME two years after graduating with a degree in English from Harvard. "A magazine is a living thing," he says, "and it lives on ideas. It turns facts into ideas, entertainments, moral positions." But that doesn't mean a pre-eminent...
Now that rap is the newest thing for underscoring commercials, and Madonna is ascending from pre-eminent dance diva to the high priestess of the new pop panculturism, rock has found a little room to maneuver. "Rock's in a constant state of change and always mutating," Geoff Tate, lead...
It's been a good year for Harvard's History Department. Although pre-eminent 19th century American historian David H. Donald and 20th century German history scholar Franklin L. Ford retired this year, five new history scholars will come to teach at the University during the next academic year.