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Around the corner, the Grolier Poetry Book Shop provides a taste of elusive bohemia. The tiny room, crowded with tall shelves and nothing but poetry serve as welcome antidotes to the Disney-fied independence of the Harvard Bookstore. Plus, Grolier never opens before noon--no true bohemian book-store does mornings...
Once again Lipinski found life a little easier. "I'm just going to walk around enjoying being Olympic champion," she said, refusing to contemplate the next Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. For a girl who makes a yearly pilgrimage to Disney World, what can possibly come next? Multimillions in endorsements, surely, but not even a rich child-queen can reign safely in this sport of revolving crowns. Skating's next monarch-in-waiting could be anywhere in the world, hatching her own devastating coup. By 2002, who knows...
...month after their companies pulled in record sales and profits. But not Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss of the financial revision, which included nearly...
...certain point in the development of a culture, it demands computer-animated ant movies. So in 1999 DreamWorks will offer Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in ANTZ, and Disney will give us A Bug's Life this November. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had nothing to do with the latter before he left Disney for DreamWorks, says Antz "is the story of one ant who wants to be an individual in a world in which that's a big no-no. That ant turns into Spartacus and leads an entire revolution. And Woody Allen is Spartacus...
Look for some blue-chip companies to step up next. Who might make the bold move? Among the giants, companies like Wal-Mart, Disney and Home Depot are good candidates. They are fast growing and pay woefully small dividends anyway. Disney, for example, has the lowest dividend yield of the 30 companies in the Dow, at 0.55%. You couldn't feed a mouse on that...