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...Baumohl. At issue is an agreement the government had made in the '80s, when it encouraged healthy thrifts to take over failing S&L's by allowing them to report the losses sustained by the insolvent institutions as "goodwill" assets. In 1989, however, feeling the offer had been too generous, Congress passed a law blocking healthy S&Ls from counting the goodwill assets as part of their minimum capital requirements. The change left many thrifts financially devastated; several sued. The Court ruled that it would have been "madness" for the three S&Ls named in the case at hand...
...Palestinians, Netanyahu promised, will never have a state of their own. Negotiations will go forward, but all he says he will offer the Palestinians is a "very generous" autonomy deal: freedom to run their own internal affairs, with the exception of foreign policy and overall security. The Palestinians already have that. The principle of the Oslo accords was that the autonomy period would be a five-year transition to greater self-determination. Netanyahu wants to freeze things as they are, though that would squash the most minimal of Palestinian aspirations...
...assured; but more than that, he has the air of someone who is pleased with himself, someone who thinks he knows more than those around him--and deserves more. It is visible in his swagger, his smirk, his well-practiced gestures. Only a man with supreme confidence and a generous sense of entitlement could have wrested control of the Likud Party as a relative newcomer. And only a man with such qualities would, at 46, have sought to become Israel's Prime Minister, a post to which no one under 60 had ever been elected...
Thomas does manage to get attention, whether she's campaigning for Class Marshall, helping run the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Alliance (BGLSA), acting in "The Real Class of '96," or tearing up the rugby field. Sure, she's loud. But she's also generous, outrageous and funny. She's a great dancer, and she can make a mean mixed drink--in more ways than one. So many people know and like her, it's sometimes hard to have a meal with her, walk down the street with her--do anything with her--without pausing while at least three...
...really have to do pretty well," says Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70, who is the chair of his department. "As generous and warm-hearted as the Faculty is, they're usually not willing to move the line that hundredth of a point that would make a difference...