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...that description differs from the indictment's charge that Y & A existed only as "a vehicle for Daniel Young and others to profit from the Colombian asset and other [less developed country] debt." The district attorney alleges that the creation of the company was an important method Young used to exploit the inside information he gleaned from his work at Manufacturers...
...also plans to continue his unorthodox classroom method, encouraging his students to focus on the details of stories about the historical periods they are studying. It is an approach which, he says "fold[s] them into the world" of history...
Harvard's method of payment to the hall is different from other area colleges, which also go to the Pops on special occasions. While other colleges rent out the hall itself, Harvard pays more by buying each seat individually, says Hoey. The total cost, with a one dollar discount per seat, is $80,743 a night, according to The Crimson's estimate using figures provided by the Pops...
...over their heads -- literally, in some cases. Clinton asked Arkansas chum Bruce Lindsey to oversee the appointments process and remain at his side on trips out of town. But Lindsey is so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of paper crossing his desk that he has resorted to a method of filing that consists of crisscrossing documents as they came in: one sideways, one straight, one sideways and so on. When one stack grew too tall, he started another. When he ran out of flat surfaces, he added to a previous stack. Soon the stacks collapsed of their own weight...
...child pornography (which, unlike most pornography, is illegal in the U.S.). Parents' and women's groups complain that sexually explicit material is still available to any youngster who can operate a modem. "The last thing this culture needs," writes Stephanie Salter in the San Francisco Examiner, "is yet another method for reducing women to sex objects...