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...Club Dios. Parked on a rear banquette, Reiji surveys his kingdom in a pin-striped, three-piece Gianfranco Ferre suit and rimless spectacles, looking like a dashing young CEO?which, in fact, he is. Reiji's two host bars gross $8 million a year and he's planning a chain of clubs and restaurants. He has authored two books aimed at businessmen and speaks at universities and to corporations. "I am called the 'King of Hosts,'" he says, "but the reason they want me is because I know the secret to success in business." Which is, of course, women...
...DIED. R. DAVID ("DAVE") THOMAD, 69, founder of Wendy's International Inc., which has more than 6,000 stores worldwide; in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Named for one of Thomas' daughters, the chain took on McDonald's with square patties ("at Wendy's we don't cut corners"), chocolate frosties and baked potatoes. The genial Thomas was its pitchman in more than 800 television spots. DIED. ALEXANDER PROKHOROV, 85, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in inventing laser technology; in Moscow. Prokhorov's contribution created a whole new realm of science: optical technology. DIED. WANG RUOSHUI...
...other strange component of training for this sport in the city is that it involves guns. In Oregon everybody has guns. It's like having a chain saw or a motorcycle - hazardous but indispensable for life in the country, and the laws of the land reflect this attitude. Rifles, pistols and ammunition were readily available in Oregon at the sporting goods section of Kmart or any other big department story, right alongside the sleeping bags and fishing poles. It was just no big deal. In Jersey City, where I live now, however, guns are associated exclusively with crime, criminals...
Chavez started out as a Democrat, working for the party's national committee while her husband worked for the AFL-CIO. She moved on to the American Federation of Teachers, another natural step in the liberal food chain. But as it happened, she found herself growing more conservative. Chavez likes to say that she didn't leave the Democratic Party but that it left her on domestic social issues and foreign policy...
...Number of tests the convenience-store chain 7-Eleven said it performed on its computer systems to make sure they were Y2K compliant...