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...original prize--a tennis match with Art Buchwald and Brustein. The bidding immediately went up another $1000 dollars, peaking at $2700. "I went to a clairvoyant last week who told me I would marry someone with a name that begin with an R," said Jo Anne Kennedy, the lucky buyer...
...world. [The monks] count on their new people to bring in new ideas. Part of our rule says that we have to keep in touch with the changing world," says Brother Scott W. Curtis, who is currently a novice in the community. Curtis, who is currently the cellarer--food buyer--for the community, has brought in theories of psychology such as conflict management to help the monks in working as spiritual counselors. "I'm surprised at how open they've been," he says...
Desperate situations sometimes inspire daring solutions. Faced with a projected budget deficit of $17 million but unwilling to raise taxes, Belize's Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel has settled on a scheme to sell bonds on the international market that will bear an unusual dividend: the right of the buyer to become a citizen of his poor but peaceful Central American country...
...growth in the number of customers who buy flowers frequently has given rise to a new type of store. So-called stem or bucket shops let the buyer be the florist. Each fresh-cut variety is put in a vase, and customers are left to create their own arrangements. Florist Gwen Moore has opened two bucket shops called the Blossom Broker in suburban Denver. Says she: "People can walk right into the cooler and do their own thing...
...Harvard selling computers hurts us very much," said the Coop's Peter Chew, a buyer for the store's wounded computer department. "The Mac especially hurt us--there's just no way we can compete...