1991Year Mama's boy meets girl. Warm-hearted. Fine performances. Review/Film

1991Year Linda Barbanel is a psychotherapist who specializes in counseling people about money conflicts. But that did not protect her from a rocky adjustment when she recently became "an heiress," as she refers to herself. "Every morning at 4 A.M., I'm up thinking about that money," she said. It's not just lack of investment knowledge that worries Ms. Barbanel. The inheritance, which is from her father, comes with emotional baggage. It brings back all the money decisions her family made while she was growing up: the things they bought and the things they didn't. "It makes me think of how money was spent or saved or not given," Ms. Barbanel said. Your Own Account

1994Year THINK about the meaning of these numbers: The global currency markets trade about $1 trillion worth of dollars each day. When the world's 17 largest central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, intervened last month to try to prop up the dollar, they dug deep into their pockets and came up with about $5 billion and change, which they threw into the market in an effort to bid up the value of the American currency. No wonder they had little effect on the dollar. The central banks were like a zoo keeper trying to calm a starved gorilla by offering it a raisin for lunch. It really wasn't the fault of the governments, though. Raisins, it seems, are all they have sometimes, compared with the assets of the huge capital, currency and bond markets they are trying to influence. Whose world is this anyway? The answer is that it is increasingly Adam Smith's world -- a world in which the balance of power between global financial markets and governments is tilting toward markets. When it comes to global markets these days, the motto of governments is: "There they go, I must catch up, for I am their leader." The World

1994Year BOSSES can be intimidating. They may not like to hear bad news, and the people who work for them know it. Bosses like that may not hear about trouble until it's too late to prevent a blunder. Melburn A. McBroom was that kind of boss. So was Marvin Falitz. How they got along with their co-workers might have gone unnoticed, at least to the outside world, if they had worked in factories or offices. But each man was an airline pilot, and each was in charge of a plane that crashed. The Nation

1990Year LEAD: Staggered by cold so intense that teardrops freeze, the moose have come to the Susitna Valley in search of easy food. Instead, they often find violent death from an iron predator. Alaska Journal

1983Year To the Editor: The citizen who according to Professor Kagan is morally obligated to do military service is male and 18 to 26 years old. No other is asked to do service of any kind. All Americans, he indicates, are given the right to dissent, but the select group earmarked for military service must be willing to risk their lives, forfeiting their right to dissent. Professor Kagan appears to believe that, since the United States is a democracy, all decisions are made in a democratic manner. Unfortunately, this is not the case, particularly in regard to foreign policy.