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King Juan Carlos of Spain--who will deliver the Commencement address--and Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem, will also reportedly receive honorary degrees...
...good riddance. Inflation had reached astronomical levels, the country teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, and in the streets, violence, kidnaping and murder ruled. Last week, however, the irrepressible Isabel returned to the political limelight in only her second visit home since she went into self-imposed exile in Spain after the 1976 military coup. This time, Argentina welcomed the widow of Juan Perón as if she were a visiting head of state...
...this state," he said. "It's called greed." No wonder. Fed by three successive drawings that failed to produce a big winner, New York's lottery jackpot had ballooned to a record $22.1 million, the highest ever in North America. (The world's largest: Spain's El Gordo, "the Fat One," which in 1983 amassed a $73 million pot.) In the final days before the drawing, tickets for the outsize prize were selling at the frenzied rate of a million an hour...
...agree, however, that a closure of the gulf would have a strong psychological impact and lead to a sharp, if temporary, increase in world oil prices of perhaps 20%. Among the countries most seriously affected would be Japan (which imports 58% of its oil from the gulf), Italy (46%), Spain (39%), and France (35%). In response to oil fears, the Tokyo stock exchange last Thursday experienced the second-worst day in its history. Furthermore, an oil cutoff could generate unrest and even upheaval in some of the gulf states. It could also lead the Arab countries to make withdrawals from...
...first elegy came to him in 1912. It was a decade later, spent in wandering from France to Germany to Switzerland, from Spain to Italy to Africa, before he completed the cycle. The labor exhausted him beyond recuperation. But in these final statements, Rilke came as close as a modern poet can to healing what he called the "fractures" of his life...