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...private institutions 7%, to $9,659. These figures, for students living on campus, include tuition, books and supplies, housing, transportation and incidentals, and climax a decade in which the rates for higher education have more than doubled. The really bad news is that they are currently rising at twice the 1985 inflation index...
...those white-coated geniuses will come up with a cure. Gilbert realizing that once Emily is gone, he will go too, since her way of life, however wretched, was their way of life. He is afraid for them both. In The Merchant of Venice Portia says that mercy is "twice blessed;/ It blesses him that gives and him that takes." The murder committed, Gilbert does not feel blessed. At best, he feels he did right, which the outer world agrees with and denies...
...block house dubbed "the bunker" and home to the non-U.S. journalists. The 55-man operation included a dozen high-powered experts fluent in English and led by well-known America Watcher Georgi Arbatov, head of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada. Besides providing twice-daily briefings that began several days before the two leaders arrived in Geneva, Arbatov & Co. mingled with journalists and appeared on the three U.S. television networks and CNN to offer official wisdom on topics ranging from ICBMs to Soviet Jews. "In the West the Soviet Union's situation...
...nightly newscast Vremya (Time), "If the two leaders manage to take even just a first step, that is very good." Nevertheless, the newscasts were less than complete: in a feature on Gorbachev's discussion of nuclear test bans with Jesse Jackson, Broadcaster Boris Kalyagin neglected to mention that Jackson twice expressed concern over Soviet treatment of Jews...
...years that he wanted all the signs in the hotel to be sleek and minimal. Then he saw the giant Louis Vuitton sign in his retail space a few weeks before the opening. "Now that's a sign!" he told his employees. All others were soon replaced by signs twice their size. The guy who once had Frank Sinatra pinch his cheeks for a commercial and who earlier this year had helicopters shoot videotape of him while he stood on a 1.5-m-wide catwalk on the roof of his 50-story hotel for a new TV ad is just...