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...building where Italy's Prime Minister works, is swathed in green netting while workmen repair its deteriorating facade. Last week the government inside was also crumbling. Citing deep rifts in his five- party coalition, Socialist Bettino Craxi resigned as Prime Minister after 3 1/ 2 years, ending Italy's longest postwar government...
Placekicker Steve Barimo (18 points) has been perfect both in field goals and extra points. His longest field goal was a 42-yarder. Freshman punter Yancy Molnar has posted a strong 37.2 average per punt...
...obligations have been piling up for years in almost every cranny of the U.S. economy: Treasury bonds, corporate securities, household mortgages, consumer credit-card slips. Taken together, all the promissory pieces of paper have had a magical ability to help sustain one of the longest periods of economic growth in U.S. history. But as that expansion moves well into its 18th quarter, fears are rising about how long the magic can last. Suddenly, alarms are sounding louder than ever that those handy piles of debt are taking on the messy proportions of a potential crisis. Individuals, corporations and even Uncle...
...world stills, for the longest time. Then, at the edge of sleep, hyenas come to giggle and whoop. Peering from the tent flap, one catches in the shadows their sidelong criminal slouch. Their eyes shine like evil flashlight bulbs, a disembodied horror-movie yellow, phosphorescent, glowing like the children of the damned. In the morning, one finds their droppings: white dung, like a photographic negative. Hyenas not only eat the meat of animals but grind up and digest the bones. The hyenas' dung is white with the calcium of powdered bones...
Larry Speakes, 47, left his job last week after five years ten months one day and nine hours as the President's spokesman, the longest tenure in that chamber of horrors since James Hagerty served Ike, twelve press officers...