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Sears' weighty troubles sit on the shoulders of chief executive Edward Brennan, 57. Last week, emerging after 20 hours of deliberations with his board during two days, he announced that 9,000 more Sears employees must be laid off by December, bringing total job cuts this year to 33,000...
When Mikhail Gorbachev decided a year ago that the Communist Party daily Pravda needed a face-lift, he appointed Politburo ally and confidant Ivan Frolov, 61, to perform the surgery. Frolov quickly pledged that the conservative Soviet mouthpiece would strive to reflect the "pluralism of opinions" within the Communist Party...
In the meantime, to make the center hold, several governments are stressing the need for an international conference to address the Arab-Israeli conflict, a proposal the U.S. supports but only if it follows an Iraqi withdrawal. French President Francois Mitterrand said last week that events had given a "new...
The fact was that Senators and the American public seemed as impressed with Souter's intelligence as they were with his image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an...
Under ordinary circumstances, it would have been unthinkable. A group of Saudi commoners telling their prince outright that the country needed to be shaken up? Preposterous. But these are extraordinary times, as the small group of businessmen pointed out during a meeting two weeks ago with Prince Salman, governor of...