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...videotapes, a letter and two computer discs. He took the tape home last Tuesday night and watched it. On Wednesday he came to work at the Interact Entertainment Group in Beverly Hills, California, which had employed Higher Source, the cult's Web-page design service. Rio told his boss, Nick Matzorkis, that he was convinced his former associates were all dead. Rio and Matzorkis drove to the house, and Rio went inside. When he came out, says Matzorkis, he was "white as a sheet." They notified the San Diego sheriff's office, whose deputies came in expecting a minor emergency...
...ready to cave in, the tobacco giants call the agreement a lot of huffing and puffing and a desperate ploy by Liggett boss Bennett LeBow to cut his losses and possibly force another cigarette maker to buy him out. Liggett's deal is transferable to any acquiring tobacco company except Philip Morris. "The only ones who potentially benefit from LeBow's latest shenanigans are plaintiffs' lawyers," said a joint statement from the four major cigarette makers (Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Lorillard), who account for 98% of U.S. tobacco sales. Through the first nine months...
...staff director. Boren put him in charge of auditing clandestine CIA programs. Tenet, says Boren, forced the agency to shut down two major covert operations after his staff found that case officers opposed U.S. policy goals and possibly allowed informants to siphon funds. Since his boss John Deutch resigned last December, Tenet has run the CIA--but not without incident. Last month Tenet said the agency did not know prior to 1995 that an Iraqi weapons dump blown up by U.S. troops in the Gulf War may have contained chemical weapons. Last week Tenet acknowledged the agency had sketchy information...
...pages; $25), would not have to work as hard as they do. Slaking the thirst of the growing number of wine drinkers takes time and muscle. So where does Arthur Atwater, manager of Victor Torelli's vineyard, find the energy to have a grand cru romance with Anna, the boss's daughter? From the same source of instinctive vitality that drives every other plant and creature in California's wantonly fertile Sonoma County...
...last May's Cannes Film Festival it won a hotly disputed prize for "originality, daring and audacity." In November it nabbed five Genies (Canada's Oscar equivalent), including one for director David Cronenberg. It also earned a chilling blast of invective from Ted Turner, boss of bosses of the film's U.S. distributor, Fine Line Features (and vice chairman of Time Warner, parent of TIME). Now Crash--from J.G. Ballard's notorious 1973 novel, and with an NC-17 warning sticker affixed--finally opens in the country that invented car culture...