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Standing in front of a huge bust of Vladimir Lenin, Communist Party leader Zyuganov, 51, sounds very much like the teacher he once was as he cites fact and figure on Russia's economic and social woes at a campaign rally in the rural Russian city of Kaluga. The situation in Russia, he says, is "a catastrophe worse than the invasions of the Tatars, Napoleon and Hitler combined." The mostly over-50 crowd, packed into the "culture palace" of a factory, constantly interrupts Zyuganov with applause, especially when he takes a gibe at Yeltsin and wonders out loud...
...very size of Magellan has helped propel a technology-stock boom that some investors believe is due for a bust. Mutual funds that invest solely in computer and electronics companies have enjoyed returns of as much as 50% to 70% so far this year. But the sound of bursting bubbles echoed last week after Smith Barney technology analyst Jonathan Cohen questioned the high prices of some of the most speculative offerings on the NASDAQ exchange. Netscape, which traded as high as 161 that day, fell 28 3/4 points when Smith Barney said the Internet software company was probably worth...
DIED. EDDIE EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...
Nearby, the bust of W.E.B. DuBois lay on the floor, protected by bubble wrap...
...reptile-skin Gucci loafers, Kirdar sat confidently in his company's New York City office--occupying the entire 37th floor of a Park Avenue high-rise--contemplating Gucci's renaissance. After Investcorp bought the company in the late 1980s, Gucci lost so much money some feared it would go bust. "There was a time," says Kirdar, "when--in the minds of several of our clients as well as some of our own professionals--Gucci was a write-off." But during the first half of this year, Gucci posted a $24.8 million profit, five times the figure for the same period...