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...into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman in a sun hat looks up at the high-rise where reputed Mob boss Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, the Oddfather who roamed the streets in his bathrobe, was her most famous neighbor...
When the executive recruiter calls and asks you to be CEO of Apple Computer, you should politely but firmly say no. Why? Last week the company forced out its third boss since 1993, and with Apple's current problems, "chief executive" isn't a job description, it's a sentence. Gil Amelio, the self-described "transformation manager" from National Semiconductor, lasted only 17 months. He trimmed Apple's confusing product line, slashed costs and pushed new Powerbook and operating-system projects back on schedule. But he couldn't halt Apple's market share slide, from 8% to 4%. The company...
...tons of equipment hauled up for a risky orbital repair that his two Russian companions are slated to attempt later this week were replacements for his lost toothbrush, shaving kit and sneakers. Freshly groomed and shod, Foale was nothing if not upbeat when he talked to NASA boss Daniel Goldin, himself under heat for allowing Americans to continue working aboard the 11-year-old Mir. "The safety concerns, I think, are well met," said the 40-year-old British-born astrophysicist, "and I'm not worried...
...officials are furious with Canadian Prime Minister JEAN CHRETIEN after an open mike at the NATO summit caught him scorning CLINTON's two-year campaign to enlarge the group as "done for short-term political reasons, to win elections." Clinton aides consider the digs meanspirited, but their boss has a different take. According to a senior official, the President laughed at the comments, chalking them up to the intricacies of Canadian-Belgian relations. Seems that Chretien was speaking to Belgian Prime Minister JEAN-LUC DEHAENE. Belgians disdain French Canadians as bumpkins, Clinton explained, so Chretien was just trying to impress...
Instead, standout solo performances by Belafonte, Richardson and Leigh help carry the film individually. As a tough gangster boss acutely aware of the state of racial relations in America, Belafonte growls his threats and jokes with a relaxed self-assurance more frightening than any outright violence. Richardson is perfection, as the perpetually addled politician's wife: she gets by only when doped up, sucking her "nerve" medicine like a baby. She drifts in and out of lucidity, though gamely conversational at all times ("I find it fascinating that both of you have husbands named Johnny...