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...picture Bill Murray, back in eighth grade, before his acne cleared up, sitting in the back row in Social Studies, spitting out gags in a rat-a-tat style calculated to send the teacher home in tears. Now Murray is grown up, and now the whole world is his classroom...
While Merrill Lynch's ventures into real estate and insurance are still taking shape, its forays into banking have already shaken the financial community. Merrill Lynch's Ready Assets Trust, known to customers and competitors alike as "the Rat," is the country's largest money-market fund, with assets of $17 billion. It requires an initial deposit of $5,000, but the money earns a high return-last week 17.43%-and investors can write checks (of $500 or more) at any time. Better yet is Merrill Lynch's Cash Management Account. Customers with...
...else will be in the spotlight. As with most commencements, the lustre is meant to be supplied by the speaker: a distinguished, recognizable figrue who has something suitable to say to a hot and sweaty crowd as another generations representatives leave the dorms and head for the rat race. At Harvard, however, something "a little extra" is desired: a Commencement--and Commencement speaker--par excellence; not just some warm, wise and witty words from the distinguished guest but a pronouncement on some momentous issue, a statement for our times. Stock in this idea rose significantly when, as Bok reminded Reagan...
...rat-a-tat of the last, overcrowded line conveys his bitterness, while the sympathetic, smooth reggae guitar soothes and strengthens...
...year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors. The rat-infested buildings are ravaged: graffiti-scarred stairwells, bashed-in doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere. And the streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they are in an almost constant state...