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One of the more unusual things Michael has done was to bid for the skull of John Merrick, the Elephant Man. After his first offer of $500,000 was denied by the museum where Merrick's head rests, he raised his offer to $1 million, then to $1.5 million.
2:30 p.m., Baton Rouge. An elephant costume sent from the National Federation of Republican Women has just arrived. They want a college student to put it on and escort Bush to the podium. Christy Casteel, Bush's Louisiana campaign director, needs to clear the costume with the Secret Service...
THE worst are the visigoths of vapidity that have been catapulted by hypertrophied marketing corportations into the realm of the so-called cutting edge. The search for multi-million record sellers has truly created some strange monsters. Nothing in the cultural history of the Western world, for example, could be...
For years, many insiders have blamed headquarters. And in fact Big Blue's corporate staff in Armonk, N.Y., was keeping a tight, often stifling lock on decision-making authority. But suddenly IBM is trying to loosen its collar. Last week Chairman John Akers announced a historic restructuring in which the...
Carl Icahn juggles Texaco, TWA and USX. -- Hypermarkets have it all -- at a discount. -- Can an elephant learn to dance?