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...chain of command in FAS has frequently been described as "every top on its own bottom"--meaning that departments have a great deal of autonomy even when FAS-wide initiatives are attempted...
Williams apparently wanted the taunting to go no further. He told Stevens of his plan to take one of his father's guns from a locked cabinet inside the apartment. "Andy took the key off the chain when his dad was sleeping," says Stevens. It's unclear whether Williams' father noticed the theft of the gun--a rare, German-made Arminius .22-cal. long-barrel revolver with an eight-shot capacity. But after the shooting, police retrieved seven other guns from the cabinet, which they said was properly locked...
Krispy Kreme's doughnuts have outperformed microchips, routers and 10-gigabit lasers since the Winston-Salem, N.C., chain went public at $21 a share last April--just as the NASDAQ started its swoon. The company has become so hot since the offering that it plans to quit NASDAQ in May for the industrial-age New York Stock Exchange...
While Beatrice expanded the chain, it remained largely a Southeastern secret until the mid-1990s. "We really didn't start growing until two or three years ago," Livengood says. The company has since opened restaurants from Boston to San Francisco and plans to have more than 500 in operation by 2005. As of now, these fat factories will produce doughnuts for both walk-in customers and commercial clients like Starbucks...
CHARGED. U.S. Fulbright scholar JOHN EDWARD TOBIN, 24; with possession of marijuana; in Voronezh, Russia, where he was studying. In a bizarre chain of events, the Russian security service arrested Tobin on drug charges, then accused him of being a spy, an allegation denied by the State Department. The spy insinuations were later dropped, but officials may now charge him with drug dealing...