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...school. Wall Street seems to agree. While most stocks have been slumping, the shares of two college systems with strong online programs have surged. Corinthian Colleges Inc. specializes in health care, technology and criminal justice and offers courses on the Internet and at 56 campuses in 19 states. Apollo Group owns the University of Phoenix, online education's oldest degree-granting institution, which also delivers courses at 80 campuses in 20 states...
...these days, Harlem is on the rise again, with Disney moving in, and Rite Aid and Magic Johnson's movie theater. And Starbucks and the Gap. And a revitalized Apollo Theater, and the fashionable houses of Striver's Row made fashionable again. And now, who should appear, ready to do business, but the Comeback Kid himself...
...speaking fee that Clinton took from Morgan Stanley may seem like a lot, but from an agent's point of view, it was totally shortsighted. He could have pocketed a lot more if he had just packaged himself somewhat differently. Bill Clinton Live at the Apollo could gross 10 times that with an extended run, not to mention the take he would get when HBO pieced together a one-hour special. It squeezed half an hour out of Margaret Cho material...
...head of Citigroup, one of the world's largest banks. Icahn, the '80s raider who shook Texaco and took TWA, has asserted influence in small doses throughout the '90s by buying large amounts of distressed corporate debt, as has former Milken colleague Leon Black at Apollo Advisors...
...subversive attributes of his characters filtered into the counterculture of the '60s; the Grateful Dead's defiantly grubby organist, Ron McKernan, was nicknamed Pig Pen; another San Francisco rock band that formed in 1966 called itself Sopwith Camel. As American soldiers stenciled Snoopy onto their helmets and the Apollo 10 astronauts christened their command module Charlie Brown and their lunar landing vehicle Snoopy, Schulz left his imprimatur on the Cold War's highest and lowest moments - the race to put a man on the moon and the war in Vietnam...