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...more than 12,000% in the past seven years--is the Apollo of the group. Fund managers trip over themselves to predict how high Cisco stock, which closed last week at $67, will be come Thanksgiving (consensus: $85). In the past six weeks the stock is up 50%. Analysts flock to industry conventions to predict a glowing future...
...double standard on sex, Air Force General Joseph Ralston withdrew from consideration as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff rather than face a hostile and microscopic Senate examination of his past. He insisted to the end that his adulterous affair deserved different treatment than that suffered by a flock of other military officers. "My regret is that the public discussion surrounding my potential nomination blurred the facts in a number of recent cases," Ralston said. He will continue in his post as vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. John Shalikashvili...
...Artists and writers like Ernest Hemingway flock to Paris...
...neither the French business community nor the fashion flock sees this pope as infallible. Arnault's American-style takeover battles have rankled France's conservative business cardinals. And his appointment of Brits to run Dior and Givenchy--not to mention his sacking of the revered Hubert de Givenchy, the man who immortalized Audrey Hepburn--shocked the French, who, with some justification, see their nation's fashion sense as chic in a way that cannot be duplicated by a couple of rostbifs...
...signature piece for first-years eager to showcase their as yet unheralded talents in composing, orchestrating, acting and singing, it is also a project in which they can have fun, in a way more most other theater groups really can't. The effort of this year's freshman flock, No Bull, provided a case-in-point illustration of this unique situation...