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...result, administrators and students say,Harvard has begun to regain its popularity withapplicants. Faculty hope this year's applicantincrease--109 more than last year--is the start ofa new trend for the Med School...
...Foretich's British attorneys obtained a court order instructing Burgess to reveal what she knew about Hilary's whereabouts. The battle then moved to the New Zealand family court when lawyers filed suit for Foretich, who wants to regain custody of his daughter. A judge has appointed a lawyer for Hilary and ordered that the child be examined by an expert in child sexual abuse. The judge also ordered Foretich, who is believed to be headed for New Zealand, to stay away from his daughter and her grandparents. They have been granted interim custody and ordered not to leave...
...fight 24 hours, Japanese businessman?" The satirical question, posed by a commercial jingle now running on Japanese television, has struck a chord in that workaholic society. The mock-martial melody promotes Regain, a caffeine-and-vitamin beverage billed as a pick-me-up for weary workers. Sales of Regain, produced by pharmaceutical giant Sankyo, have jumped sharply since the jingle went on the air last June and became a national craze. The Japanese are dancing to the Regain song at bars and singing it at schools, offices, athletic meets and cultural festivals...
Last November Epic/Sony released a CD single of the jingle, sung by actor Saburo Tokito, who plays an oddly intrepid businessman in Regain's surreal commercials. So far, the CD has sold 300,000 copies and topped the Japanese pop-music chart. Definitely not amused: Japan's Labor Ministry, which has been trying to persuade the Japanese to shorten their workweek...
...hurts: in the economy, and in the keen sense among whites that they are pariahs in the world's eyes and will remain so until apartheid is abolished. That may be the most telling impact of the sanctions. Today most whites are eager to end the pain and regain a place among civilized nations. Yet they are also angry and resentful, blaming Americans in particular for what they see as rank hypocrisy. Many insist that the U.S. has lost, not gained, leverage over South African policies...