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...many years Hariston was a Kott plaything. Hariston's stock had been sold by First Commerce Securities. The company was once called Western Allenbee Oil & Gas and later renamed Convoy Capital. Whatever the label, Hariston bore an odd resemblance to First Commerce's main piece of merchandise, DeVoe-Holbein International. It too boasted technology that could squeeze minerals from water, and one of the same scientists was involved: Irving W. DeVoe, a Canadian professor who had co-founded DeVoe-Holbein. In the early 1990s, a Hariston unit announced a project to extract minerals from mining waters in Butte, Montana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SECRET LIFE OF JB OXFORD | 12/9/1996 | See Source »

...news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well have run the Undergraduate Council. It couldn't just have been Clinton who upset Brinkley. Surely that infamous Eli, George Herbet Walker Bush, could easily have earned the epithet of a "bore." It was the false objectivity, the boxed information, the unfortunate categorization of the television news that Brinkley detested. Of Clinton's victory speech, Brinkley opinionated that it was "one of the worst things I've ever heard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAN YOU SAY THAT ON THE AIR? | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

Hockey plays more frequently, but the beginning of the season is a bore. Who cares if the Bruins are 4-4-1 or 5-4-0? The season does not get interesting until February. No fix for our ESPN nut here...

Author: By Yair J. Listokin, | Title: Sports Endures Cyclical Lull | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...cheat on his taxes or his wife, but if the garbage is picked up and the snow plowed, no one cares very much. Like the mayor of these United States, Clinton has done a decent job of minding the store, keeping the economy ticking over, and steadily announcing small-bore solutions to everyday problems, proposing school uniforms, cellular-phone service to fight crime, and curfews. Without World War III to worry about, the Chief Executive turns into President Pothole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TROUBLE WITH CHARACTER | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons in Odysseus' storeroom. Melanthius emerges "one hand clutching a crested helmet, the other/ an ample old buckler blotched with mildew/ the shield Laertes bore as a young soldier once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCORING A HOMER | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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