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...government in Zaire, WINNIE MANDELA is striking a few deals of her own. South Africa's former First Lady is in money trouble, and having failed to sell an interview to any British or South African news outlets (asking price: almost $800,000), she's cashing in on the cachet of the humble house in Soweto that she shared with Mandela in the 1950s. But now that Soweto is a tourist destination, the garage has become a curio shop where you can pick up a small bottle of soil from the garden ("Heroes' Acre," as the label calls it). Each...
...firestorms, Freeh can take comfort in the fact that his agency retains a special cachet; he can thank The X-Files and The Silence of the Lambs for helping inspire 65,000 people to apply for a few hundred upcoming agent slots (starting salary for an FBI agent: $42,000). He can also take some solace from the fact that while a cozy office in a big law firm may look pretty appealing to him right now, he can depart in his own time; Clinton is in no position to fire him, given the ongoing investigations into campaign contributions. Does...
...range from $1.25 to $3.15.) Why the expense for such tiny smokes? In 1994 the ATF reclassified beedies as cigarettes rather than cigars, thus imposing a tax rate about 10 times as high as was previously charged. Though they may have cult status in America, beedies have little cachet back in India, where more than 800 billion are smoked each year. They remain what they have always been, says Ralapati, "the poor man's cigarette...
...year, we will have generated enough risk reduction to seek external funding." Eventually they plan to sell shares to the public. They want to build their own plants to make their own power trains and sell them to car companies. In their vision, "Powered by Rosen" would become a cachet, like "Intel Inside...
Would she do well at a third-ranked college like Harvard? I'm willing to bet that she would. Its elite cachet taken down a few notches to sell magazines, Harvard still overwhelms and excites; it is an extraordinary collection of people and events that is much deeper than any name can conjure, and something that will last much longer than the flow and ebb of reputation and trend. On that day, she must have sensed a warmth from the awkwardness and earnestness of our visit, our forthright goodwill and our best wishes for her future. Detached from the trappings...