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...keep score." And by that measure, as CEO of the conglomerate Tyco, he often came out on top. He took home more than $300 million in total compensation in the past three years. He amassed an impressive collection of toys: three Harley-Davidson motorcycles; a 130-ft. classic 1930s sailing yacht; a private plane; lavish homes in New York City, coastal New Hampshire, Nantucket and Boca Raton, Fla.; and a small stake in the New Jersey Devils and the New Jersey Nets. Most important, in the past decade, he paid more than $60 billion for 200 major corporate acquisitions...
...beginning of this year the American church had hit a classic impasse. The majority of U.S. Catholics clearly--but quietly--favored some kind of power sharing. When polled in 1999, reports Catholic University's D'Antonio, 65% of the "high-commitment Catholics" supported "more democratic decision making" at the parish level, and 56% wished for more at the diocesan level. But after years of simply ignoring birth control and abortion edicts out of Rome, many simply did not care enough about church governance to join liberal activist groups. Admits D'Antonio, whose leanings are liberal: "Things were going slowly." That...
SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE IN A CLASSIC MID-LIFE CRISIS. Something along those lines, yeah. I'd like to have a regular job, so to speak...
...supposed to be about getting a crappy childhood out of your system. It's about having a crazy time." Almost 50 years after Bill Haley, rock audiences have had lots of crazy times, but they long to repeat the great experiences of the past--hence the interest in classic-rock radio, Woodstock '99 and Lenny Kravitz--without feeling like a bunch of retro losers. The Hives' reckless, joyful punk evokes nostalgia for an era the band's young listeners missed out on, while the suits, T shirts and the best ironic song titles in recent memory--The Hives...
...they have to go and wreck a classic comic strip by turning it into a computer-animated, teen-spleen movie? LIAM CONLEY Columbia...