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...harmonic linkups attracted TV crews, the vaguely curious, hi-tech yuppies, shaggy hipsters and even the odd businessman. Said one Wall Street investment banker who went to Sagaponack: "I never thought I'd get involved in this sort of thing. It's easy to pass off the group as certifiable, but the more people who are continuously working on overcoming conflict, the happier...
American authorities were mildly astonished last week after getting a call from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties said they had nabbed Charles J. McVey II, 57, a businessman-fugitive on the U.S. Customs Service's ten-most-wanted list. The Canadian cops found him in Teslin, Yukon Territory, a hamlet 850 miles north of Vancouver. McVey was a target of Operation Exodus, an effort to stop sales of Western high-tech goods to the Eastern bloc...
...work force. The trend is fueled by legions of workers who see myriad opportunities to start their own business and be their own boss. Says Robert Kushell, a Glen Cove, N.Y., franchising consultant: "The accountant who doesn't want to work with numbers all day, the businessman who's tired of traveling three weeks out of the month, the woman who has stayed home and raised a family and now wants a career -- all these people can find that franchising offers them a process for learning a new career...
...record throw of 253 ft. 5 in. "I like things fair." From the tiny Utah archer Denise Parker, 13, who won a gold medal, to the statuesque Costa Rican swimmer Silvia Poll, 16, teenage girls were the fairest of them all. The daughter of a German businessman who made his way to Costa Rica through Nicaragua, Poll is the biggest (6 ft. 3 in.), blondest and best freestyler in all of Central America. She won a fistful of her country's inaugural medals, including three golds, and wasn't finished...
...bulk of Kennedy's remaining debt is comprised of three loans he took out during the campaign to defeat a field including a dozen Democratic contenders in the primary and a wealthy Republican businessman in the general election...