Word: afternoon
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...MACHEL, 52, the widow of a former President of Mozambique and an advocate for international child welfare. Rumors of wedlock had been rife, but Mandela had betrayed no hint of matrimony, even as he received birthday gifts early on Saturday at the presidential residence in Pretoria. Then, in the afternoon, a press conference of "national importance" was announced, luring reporters from Mandela's home outside Johannesburg. With the press out of the way, the couple were wed in a private ceremony. Mandela was reportedly sending a herd of cattle to Machel's family as a traditional African bride payment. Machel...
Quality education, affordable housing and heterogeneous communities are essential for rebuilding urban areas, Thomas M. Keane Jr. '78 told a group of about thirty at the Institute of Politics (IOP) yesterday afternoon...
...Silverman's town house and nearby Central Park to try to sniff out her trail. And they are pursuing leads that she may have been killed and dumped in the grassy medians along New Jersey's Garden State Parkway, where the Kimeses are believed to have driven the afternoon Silverman vanished...
These were the sorts of thoughts one had while sitting with Brown, Weinstein and Galotti last Thursday afternoon in the midtown Manhattan hotel room where they had been holed up taking phone calls and giving interviews since announcing their new venture the day before. With assistants and publicity folk fluttering about like bridal attendants, one had the feeling of being at the white-hot center of the world. If there is to be a culture clash between Brown and Galotti--both used to the bottomless largesse and stylish cool of Conde Nast--and the more profane, tightfisted world of Miramax...
...online stock trading service E*Trade got a big boost Friday afternoon when the giant Japanese software distributor Softbank announced it was investing a fresh $400 million in the upstart brokerage. Forget Kleiner Perkins -- the Tokyo-based Softbank is the real kingmaker when it comes to anointing web frontrunners. The investment raises Softbank's stake to 27% of E*Trade, and matches the company's large ownership interest in other web winners like Yahoo (31%) and Geocities (35%). Softbank also owns more than 70% of electronics publishing giant Ziff-Davis...