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CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,250 American adults taken for TIME/CNN on Aug. 19-20 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus...
Behind the mayhem is rebel mujahedin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who apparently decided he could not afford to allow President Burhanuddin Rabbani's interim government to gain much stability. On Aug. 2, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif was due to arrive in Kabul, and Hekmatyar's rockets closed the airport. On Aug. 8, Rabbani was to fly to Tehran. The attacks intensified again. Since he was due in Pakistan last week for meetings with Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif, it was predictable that the rockets would come in more heavily than ever. Last week's barrage left 600 people dead...
Phar-Mor said Monus, 44, and chief financial officer Patrick Finn, 34, both fired two weeks ago, funneled about $10 million of company funds into the struggling World Basketball League, which folded Aug. 1. The firm says the two men participated in a scheme to cook the company's books, forcing it to write off $350 million -- including the allegedly stolen funds and $340 million in overstated profits. The privately held concern has dismissed auditor Coopers & Lybrand, which it blamed for failing to spot the fraud. The accounting firm says Phar-Mor's move was "apparently designed to posture, bluster...
...month for a megarave billed as "The Love Parade." Accompanied by about 20 trucks laden with computers, techno deejays and powerful sound systems, 7,000 revelers danced down the city's main street, then converged for an all-night rave. An even larger rave is planned in Mannheim on Aug. 29. And raves are still going strong in Belgium and England, where some events have attracted as many as 20,000 people...
Splendors, which is on display through Aug. 16, is the third exhibition presented by Wonders: the Memphis International Cultural Series, a city- sponsored effort launched in 1987. The previous two: Ramesses the Great and, in 1991, Catherine the Great: Treasures of Imperial Russia. All three have made a virtue of the fact that the convention center is a vast space, unconstrained by walls and the other restrictions of permanent galleries; thus it gives curators the flexibility to create the museum of their dreams. The installation for Ramesses, for example, opened with a grand processional hall formed by rows...