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...novelists like to stereotype American entrepreneurs as single-minded and heartless? Perhaps because so many are. Herman Melville set the tone in 1857 with The Confidence-Man. Mark Twain later brought the national style of go-getting to popular perfection in Huckleberry Finn. An adult rereading of that masterpiece reveals a hierarchy of hustlers, from runaway slave Jim and his fortune-telling hair ball to the outlandish charlatans calling themselves the King and the Duke...
Extra security guards were posted at the entrance to Dunster House for at least 10 days after the May 28 murder-suicide, according to Liem and Assistant to the Dunster Masters Carol Finn. Kerry that we should invade the Social Security trust fund," Weld said...
Einstein is trying to roll past Bruegger's, which has 287 stores and 250 more abuilding. The Burlington, Vermont, company sells more than 3 million bagels a week. CEO Steve Finn plans to have 1,000 stores by 1999. To help fuel that growth, Bruegger's agreed to merge with Quality Dining, a $270 million Indiana restaurant operator...
Still not content, Suponcic contacted Steven LaTourette, the U.S. Congressman who represents his district. LaTourette's staff suspects that the problem lies with Julf Helsingius, the Finn who runs the anonymous remailer. They wrote a letter to the Finnish ambassador and sent copies to the Secretary of State and the chairman of the House Committee on International Relations. The State Department agreed last week to look into the complaint...
Even classic pieces of literature, from Huckleberry Finn to The Catcher In The Rye, would no longer be available via electronic libraries, since occasionally vulgar language might not be legally "proper" for children...