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...FOOL AND THE FISH by Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (Dial; $12.95). Ivan is that classic Russian archetype, the wise idiot. When he catches a talking pike, it strikes a bargain: if Ivan casts it back into the icy water, his every wish will be granted. The result is riches, fame -- and problems. Gennady Spirin's paintings exhibit the palette of Russian icons and the surreal quality of Bruegel landscapes...
...provides longer-lasting nourishment. On its pages are some 3 million words of text and 13,500 illustrations, most of them in color. The cost is commensurate. Even at $129.95, the volume is so cannily organized and illustrated that many families might consider it a bargain...
...great idea. It's a very novel idea," Rhew said. "It looks like an excellent bargain for students, considering that they'll only have to pay one or two dollars...
...federal crackdown on securities fraud that has so far netted a dozen major convictions. The big fish included Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky, who was fined $100 million for insider trading in 1986 and sentenced to three years in prison (he served two). As a condition of his plea bargain, Boesky helped prosecutors pursue Milken...
More than a thousand bargain hunters and curiosity seekers showed up under a bright orange-and-white tent 10 miles outside Reno last week to watch the ultimate strip show at the legendary Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments...