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...stories--and game architect John Romero's custard-yellow Ferrari leaps out among the pickups and sedans in the parking lot. (It looks better beside the mostly marble, gargoyle-graced home he just built.) And yes, John Carmack, id's president and chief visionary, is having his own Ferrari custom built from parts. But the dress code is shorts and T shirts, as set by the ponytailed Romero, who at 28 is the eldest partner...
...cutting hair. The next thing I know, I look up and all of a sudden there's smoke everywhere," said John Mitchell, a barber at Custom Barber-Shop on the opposite side of Brattle Street...
...stage parents of the old school, pushing their daughter in front of the curtain, hoping she would become a star, Macaulay Culkin in a cockpit. The week before the flight Jessica handed out signed photographs to members of the Half Moon city council. Dubroff spent $1,300 on custom-made baseball caps to distribute to friends and the media. They read, JESSICA WHITNEY DUBROFF, SEA TO SHINING SEA, april 1996. He also primed her to write a letter to President Clinton, inviting him along for a ride. "To visit you at the White House would be wonderful," she wrote...
That doesn't mean other nations are cheering the Russians on, however. Germany is negotiating to recover all the artwork seized by the Soviets in 1945, including Priam's Treasure. "Contrary to custom," sniffs a statement from Berlin's Museum of Early and Pre-History, "the Pushkin Museum will be exhibiting the Schliemann gold without the participation of its owner." German curators have even broached the idea of lending the lesser Schliemann artifacts they still possess to the Pushkin, presumably in exchange for a return loan. But so far there has been no response...
...accounting figment. Using them would increase the deficit or force greater cuts in other programs. Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Appropriations chairman Bob Livingston are vehemently opposed. Attempts by Newt Gingrich to reconcile them and Shuster have come to naught. Meanwhile, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan broke with his custom of staying neutral to advise against passage...