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...reputation as an escape artist, he wiggled out of ropes and straitjackets, as well as handcuffs, sometimes while in a coffin submerged in water. At 27 he was invited to appear on a CBS television show, It's Magic. "They hauled me 110 ft. above Broadway with a crane, hanging me upside down at the end of a cable in a straitjacket -- and I escaped from the jacket. It got me on the front page of the Herald Tribune." It also launched his television career, which has included 32 appearances on the Tonight show alone. Randi's formula was simple...
...buried in financial documents. "I know exactly where everything is -- unless somebody moves the paper. Then there'll be a crisis." Somehow Icahn's operation remains efficient despite the increasingly complicated latticework of his investments. Icahn raises money through an array of partnerships bearing such names as Aero Limited, Crane, Pelican and Condor. He changes the titles frequently so that his competitors cannot easily follow his activities in the market. To play, new investors must kick in a minimum of $100 million. But as Icahn told TIME, "No matter how much money they give me to invest...
...taking the seeds offered from across the sea and cultivating them into our own Japanese garden," the long-beaked cartoon crane explains to the audio-animatronic figures of a little girl and her brother. "Culture doesn't just come; it develops slowly, richly. Generation after generation has to digest and refine these marvelous influences." The message may seem a little heavy for an amusement park, but the audience in the country's first revolving Carousel Theater is all ears. As the stage revolves, the sagacious bird launches into a lecture on the virtues of isolationism. Finally the Feathered One concludes...
...Caleb Crane '89, the Advocate's fiction editor, came up with the poster idea last year. After he and some friends collaborated on a trial run in the spring, they decided to put out Cheap Lit. regularly during the next school year...
...want to create something that moves fast and grabs people's attention," Crane said. "The root idea is to popularize the reading of students' creations through an easy and available medium...