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GLAAD members have personally witnessed Crimson reporter Josh Gerstein staked out near the Science Center bathroom, terrifying anyone who uses the facility with questions for the Crimson's pages. If the Crimson applied this sort of persistance evenly without regard for sexual orientation, date rape would not flourish as it does at Harvard...
First, however, there are a few complications to sort out. On top of proving once again that he is one of the most gifted novelists of his generation, Amis demonstrates that he is also among the cleverest. He writes about a writer who is writing a murder story about a crime that has not yet happened but is being staged by the victim. The designation is used advisedly. Nicola Six may get her head bashed in at the end of the book, yet she remains a good candidate for the most willful and neutering female ever devised...
...Anchorage, Joe Hazelwood has an unimpeded view of ice-choked Cook Inlet and the snowy peaks of the Alaska Range looming 100 miles to the north. But across the street in Courtroom C of Alaska Superior Court, where the defrocked skipper of the Exxon Valdez is trying to sort out his legal future, the outlook is murky...
Nine years afterward, the same sort of naifs were asking themselves a question: If you could purchase a $1,000 car for $100 down, why couldn't you acquire stock the same way? In 1929 that kind of instant gratification was called buying on margin. As the market crashed, the president of the New York Stock Exchange remained confident. Federal regulations were unnecessary, said Richard Whitney. "The exchange is a perfect institution." After he left office, Whitney was indicted for selling stock on insufficient capital. He was $6 million short, even after he dipped into funds of the New York...
...there. The vastly overextended IOS had fallen victim to the bear market of 1970. So had Cornfeld, who gave up his castles in France and Switzerland, as well as his jet and Rolls-Royce. Today he is dealing real estate in Europe, his celebrated harem now "down to sort of a skeleton crew of three or four...