Word: fines
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Like Hirohito, who was an avid amateur marine biologist, Akihito became an expert on fish. He is also a dedicated musician, and the palace often resounds with impromptu concerts of Mozart, Grieg or Beethoven; Akihito is a fine cellist and is joined by his wife playing the harp, Hiro on viola, Aya on the guitar and Nori at the piano. Says chief chamberlain Yasuo Shigeta: "This is a family so full of sweet music...
...Walton is still the richest man in America, but his fortune may be dented a bit because he missed a court deadline. A state judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company will appeal Walton...
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE EARLY WORK, 1929-1934, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Some 75 prints from the period when Cartier-Bresson was creating one of the most original and influential styles in the history of photography. Through...
...American Book Award for a first book of fiction. He might be excused for trying to repeat his earlier success, but that turns out not to be necessary. Only two of the eight stories in The Next New World take place on tropical islands, and while perfectly fine, they are not the best things in this collection. A typical Shacochis story is still likely to have a large body of water somewhere in the vicinity, but the author is moving north and onto the mainland...
...these days -- opening casinos, buying and selling hotels, acquiring airlines, sponsoring bicycle races, showing off his new yacht and talking, talking, talking. Some admire him as a high- spirited entrepreneur; some despise him as a glitzy vulgarian. As long as he keeps on making money, that suits him just fine. See PROFILE...