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...provider trying to get AOL's goat, not to mention its customers. Prodigy is planning a similar AOL-taunting spot and MCI got its shot in today when a spokesman commented, "We certainly think people should be on-line, not in line. If people can't get to the buffet table, they're not coming back." On Wednesday, AT&T made an announcement that AOL's woes have caused a large number of customers to defect to its WorldNet service. And to add to the fiasco, New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco said today he may file a lawsuit...
...Clinton's life for more than a decade. The two men met when Trie ran a Chinese restaurant located near the Capitol in Little Rock named Fu Lin (in Chinese, it can mean "enrich your neighbor"). Clinton became a regular at Fu Lin, which hosted an unusually generous luncheon buffet. A friendship sprouted, and Clinton named Trie to the Arkansas State fire extinguisher board...
...anyone interested in glimpsing a real-life Who's Who in Lima only needed to peek over the embassy's garden wall, where more than 600 guests, largely government officials, foreign diplomats and corporate executives, were preparing to make a run at the sushi buffet and raise their pisco sours to toast Aoki's hospitality. Even Peru's President Alberto Fujimori, the son of Japanese immigrants, was expected. His mother Rosa, brother Pedro and sister Juana were already there...
...that the market has nowhere to go but down: last spring's record $1.45 million price tag for a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, or mounting margin debt in brokerage accounts, or a raft of fast-selling new investment books--including at least three about wizard Warren Buffet...
...News Channel is hardly the only new entree on a growing buffet table of news offerings. There are now two nationwide cable channels, CNBC and CNNfn, that specialize in business news. Another two--one from ESPN, the other from CNN and Sports Illustrated--will soon be offering around-the-clock sports news. On radio, news dribbles out daily on all-news stations and is dissected by opinionated talk-show hosts like Imus, Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh. Local TV news programming is booming--up to six or seven hours a day on some stations--and 18 regional cable channels offer...