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...Ministry of Finance is taking dramatic steps to clean up the mess. The Daiwa case has shown how shoddy management can be in at least one major Japanese bank. Daiwa and the ministry waited too long to notify the U.S. of the losses, and the bank used shell companies to hide losses. Last week officials at Daiwa's Osaka headquarters would say only that Iguchi was asked to carry on simply to "prevent him from escaping." As a whole, Japanese banks have failed to divulge the extent of their bad loans. They have also failed to clear their books...
...Hanna R. Shell '99 said she recycles her paper despite the fact that it is inconvenient...
...Pacific disaster was preceded by one in the North Atlantic. In July daring commando actions by Greenpeace activists scuttled Shell Oil's plans to sink the storage platform Brent Spar. According to the triumphant activists, the campaign saved the sea from pollution by 5,000 tons of oil. Last month chagrined Greenpeace officials were forced to admit that the potential environmental damage had been grossly miscalculated. The Brent Spar actually contained only 10 tons...
...also the fact that events on the battlefield and at the negotiating table seem, for once, to be working hand in hand. Though Holbrooke has served to push things along, the crucial breakthrough came only after the Serbs finally provoked the Western allies on Aug. 28 by firing a shell into a Sarajevo market, killing 38 civilians and triggering NATO's air strikes. While the bombardment kept the Serbs preoccupied, the Croat-Muslim juggernaut was free to surge ahead, and by last Wednesday it stood within 30 miles of the Serb stronghold of Banja Luka, raising fears that Serbian President...
Thus in the concrete courtyard outside the cafeteria at St. Aloysius Gonzaga--before classes, between classes, in any weather, in the demon energy of our hormones--we played basketball. A boy would launch a set shot from the outside that rose steeply and dropped like a mortar shell. Swish! Another teenage pregnancy averted...