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...Brando. Brando, arguably, is bigger than the films themselves, bigger than their scripts. His performance in The Godfather is so powerful that Don Corleone has come to typify the under-world kingpin, not only in Hollywood, but in the American consciousness as well. Brando's riveting presence is an asset in The Godfather, given the somber ambience carefully crafted by Francis Ford Coppola, and the balance provided to the work by the equally riveting performances of Al Paccino, Robert Duvall, and James Caan, all nominated for Academy Awards...
Within Medicaid, which helps pay for health care for the needy, disabled and aged, the state would require co-payments for prescription drugs and emergency room visits. The state would begin allowed to consider a person's home an asset when determining Medicaid eligibility, and would eliminate three optional benefits--chiropractic services, podiatry and non-prescription drugs for adults...
...former senior V.P. at Denver's bankrupt Silverado S&L, he was hired to handle asset marketing for the local office of the agency formed to deal with the mess. Later, red-faced officials tried to fire him but were stymied by federal rules. So he sits at home on leave, collecting his full salary...
...periodical. The new title: M inc. Manhattan, inc. lost more than $8 million over six years, says publisher D. Herbert Lipson. Its ad base was crippled when New York's financial and real estate markets went dry. The 1987 stock-market crash stole the magazine's indispensable asset: high-flying Wall Street targets to shoot down. The magazine also lost some of its edge when founding editor Jane Amsterdam was replaced by Clay Felker...
...individual can replicate the forest, redo it like a farmer growing a crop and do it better than nature," he says. "I can remake the old forest the same way nature did, only quicker." Talk like that riles environmentalists, who see the forest as more than just another fungible asset. Steve Erickson, whose father was in the timber industry and whose brother works in a mill, is writing a book about hiking trails. But Erickson finds it hard to share his vision of the forest. "It's like being in an artery in God's body," he says. Biologists...