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Phar-Mor said Monus, 44, and chief financial officer Patrick Finn, 34, both fired two weeks ago, funneled about $10 million of company funds into the struggling World Basketball League, which folded Aug. 1. The firm says the two men participated in a scheme to cook the company's books, forcing it to write off $350 million -- including the allegedly stolen funds and $340 million in overstated profits. The privately held concern has dismissed auditor Coopers & Lybrand, which it blamed for failing to spot the fraud. The accounting firm says Phar-Mor's move was "apparently designed to posture, bluster...
...Huckleberry Finn anyway? The most celebrated hobo hero in American literature took on a new dimension when Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, unveiled the research that went into her forthcoming book, Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices...
Twain said Huckleberry Finn, the young narrator of his most famous book, was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy in Hannibal, Mo. But Fishkin argues that Huck's voice was in part inspired by Jimmy, a 10-year-old black servant. Twain described this boy in an 1874 article in the New York Times as "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across." Added Twain: "He did not tell me a single remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering. And yet he was himself so interested in his small marvels, and they flowed...
...team of experts from the fields of education, business and journalism has been working out the details of the school system since March. The eclectic group includes Chester Finn Jr., a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration; John Chubb, an expert on government and public policy; and Lee Eisenberg, the former editor in chief of Esquire...
...quick look around the dining hall makes it clear who is eating the bulk of that food. Carol Finn, Dunster's assistant to the masters, says that the tutors manage to polish off their allotted meals quite well...