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Cohen could not be reached yesterday, and Out-of-Town-News Supervisor Jim T. Finn declined to comment...

Author: By Monica D. Watkins, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Vendor Protests Treatment | 1/6/1993 | See Source »

...while the audience is puzzling that out, "A River Runs Through It" happily recounts the Huckleberry Finn-like childhood of Norman Maclean (played by Craig Sheffer) and his brother Paul (Brad Pitt). Their father (Tom Skerritt) is both a preacher and a fisher, sermonizing from the pulpit, the study and from the river banks. The Reverend Maclean teaches them equal respect for God's word and God's fish. As he is happy to remind his children, the apostles were all fishers - and fly fishers at that...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: New Movies | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...Carol A. Finn, assistant to the Dunstermasters, said that the Liems and Power made thedecision after receiving complaints about smoke inthe dining hall. "The problem is that there was noway of segregating that area, and everyone has towalk through the smoking area," Finn said...

Author: By Jessica C. Schell, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Dunster Officials Ban Smoking | 10/16/1992 | See Source »

...disgraces. The narratives that Americans need may be somewhat more advertent, and morally organized. People invent stories to explore their own behavior and to imagine their own possibilities. Few moments in America's moral life have surpassed the soliloquy, product of Mark Twain's imagination, in which Huck Finn agonizes over what to do about turning over the runaway slave Jim to the white authorities. Huck ends by accepting the consequences of his decision not to do so: "All right, then, I'll go to hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folklore in a Box | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

Phar-Mor, the largest and fastest-growing U.S. deep discount drugstore chain -- with 306 stores in 33 states -- sought bankruptcy court protection after firing president Michael Monus and chief financial officer Patrick Finn and taking a $350 million write-off. The company claimed that Monus and Finn embezzled $10 million and overstated profits, then sued its accountants, Coopers & Lybrand, for failing to spot the fraud. Coopers countersued, accusing Phar-Mor executives of providing false and misleading figures to audit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slipping Beneath The Bottom Line | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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