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...outlook would be brighter still without the currency crises in Southeast Asia that have thrown economies and financial markets into chaos. Though the 7% break in the U.S. stock market on Oct. 27 was "a greatly exaggerated reaction," in the words of Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, the turmoil will hurt American exports and the profits of U.S. companies heavily invested there. But strong growth at home and in other big U.S. markets--Canada, Mexico and Europe--should offset much of the damage...
...After reading the sweetly sentimental poem John wrote for their wedding, Alida falls into his arms, and he realizes "why men have written poems all these centuries--it is to impress a woman in hopes that she will sleep with you." It is as if Alida has suddenly thrown away her previous desires to live life fully as a single person, and has suddenly subscribed to John's almost sexist ideals that beautiful young women are one of the great pleasures of life. But whose life...
...Kacholia '98 or Harvard First Marshal Philip R. Kaufman '98 on Wednesday, June 3, 1998, should the work of the Class Day Speaker Selection Committee continue in set course. Clooney, the star of NBC's dramatic mini-series "ER", is but one of a handful of popular names being thrown around within the confines of the committee. According to sources on said committee, names of actors and entertainers are flying about like pizzas-in-the-making at Tommy's. But they are highly contested by scores of athletes, including Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson. Letters of invitation have...
...newest roadblock the masters have thrown up to universal keycard access is the College's policy that there be two locked doors between the street and every student's room. Fine, the two-door policy sounds good on admissions tours, and seems to make some safety sense. But who ever called for the locks to be removed? Our point--the students' point--all along has been that giving all Harvard students access to an entryway door does not diminish the degree to which that door can be considered locked. If anything, because we will be naturally both more likely...
Albright, who is on a first-name basis with Primakov, was nevertheless wary. "Yevgeni, I hope you understand where our red lines are," she warned. "The only thing we're going to accept is unconditional Iraqi compliance." The one bone Moscow had thrown Saddam was to lobby for Iraq in the Security Council, Primakov assured her. "I entered into no obligations on behalf of anyone else...