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...characteristic Susan inherited from her more flamboyant father was a fondness for weapons. Villegas bragged to his polo buddies that his girlfriend was an expert shot. A disagreement over the ponies' care apparently preceded the shooting of Villegas. Polo is hard on the horses, which must stop on a dime while in full gallop and make sudden turns so riders can chase the ball. Friends say Cummings, a committed animal lover, did not want her ponies to play two days in a row. Villegas, who had been in a match on Saturday, Sept. 6, was scheduled to play again...
Call her a scold, but if Israeli Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and P.L.O. leader YASSER ARAFAT are still refusing to get off the dime on peace talks by the time she arrives in the Middle East next month, Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT plans to give them the not-so-diplomatic treatment she's becoming famous for: a blunt talking-to and a rap on the knuckles. Washington is frustrated with the game of diplomatic chicken that both sides have been playing. In several major speeches, Albright plans to lay out "what road they're headed down" if the talks...
WASHINGTON: It seems Al Gore did do some illegal White House fundraising, after all. New phone records show Gore called 46 people on the White House dime, rather than calling "a couple" on the Clinton-Gore campaign phone card, as he'd previously claimed...
...helper, without whom she could not work. Manager's nothing-fancy four-bedroom, two-bathroom house cost him $475,000. So he has a fat monthly payment. He'd love to invest more in the stock market. But his eldest child starts college in three years. Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives. It's all Manager can do to fully fund his 401(k) plan, which is in stocks. But that is a tax-deferred account. So the lower gains...
...Woolworth stores and laying off 9,200 people to focus on selling shoes and accessories, it seemed that another American icon was being swept aside by the cruel winds of change. Yet Woolworth suffered not from forces beyond its control so much as from generations of five-and-dime management of the 118-year-old chain. In the '60s the company was late in following its customers to malls, and its attempt at a discount chain, Woolco, lasted just 20 years. Similarly, in the early '90s, Woolworth homed in on mall locations just as shoppers were abandoning mall shopping...