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...draft during the Vietnam War (although he looks physically fit to me)." It seems Stallone went to an elite private school in Switzerland, then from 1967 to 1969 studied acting at the University of Miami. On his acting days at Miami, Stallone reflects: "I learned it was possible to function without brain waves for two years." Then as U.S. fortunes sagged in Vietnam, Stallone in the early 1970s worked on producing soft core porn movies...
Federal law technically forbids banks to branch across state lines. But the rules have not stopped the interstate spread of financial institutions that function very much as real banks do. These companies have been able to circumvent the law because they do not fit the legal definition of a bank: an institution that takes deposits that can be withdrawn on demand and makes commercial loans. Known as "nonbank banks," the newcomers generally take deposits or make loans, but do not do both. About 80 of these limited-service banks have sprung up across...
...grill provides more of a social than a financial function, and God knows Harvard needs that right now with the new alcohol policy," Watson says...
...Director immediately after the conference without consulting their colleagues and before a review had been launched. At least one other member of the Executive Committee was deeply offended by that action. Under the circumstances, I believe that the Executive Committee as currently constituted cannot serve a useful function. It will therefore cease to operate as an administrative body in the Center...
...There are some important immediate policy matters to take up. One is whether the CMES needs to supplement the policies of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences with respect to grants and contracts, to take account of the special features of the region in which scholars in the field function. For example, the Committee and the director should consider whether, given the particular circumstances of the Center, intelligence agency grants and contracts should be used for research. Centers are free to add to the Faculty's policies, provided the additions are consistent with the University's overall policies...