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...were blessed with bright, beguiling actresses and superb roles tailored to their wit and independence. Hepburn got her share: the virginal "lady flyer" in Christopher Strong, irresistibly manic Jo March in Little Women, the small-town social climber in Alice Adams, the cross-dressing Sylvia Scarlett and another terrific haughty-actress part in Stage Door...
...active fraud investigation hasn't kept buyers from snapping up millions of shares of embattled HealthSouth. In Chicago an investment club took a flyer on bankrupt UAL, the parent company of United Airlines, believing that the stock was set to soar. More than 57 million shares of bankrupt WorldCom were traded last Thursday on news that WorldCom had reached a revised settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will give some shareholders stock in the new company when it comes out of bankruptcy. True, but this applies only to people who owned WorldCom before June 25, 2002. When WorldCom...
...members, targeting disgruntled young Afghans in refugee camps in Chaman, Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi. The appeals play on pride and alienation, charging that the Americans are denigrating Islam and Pashtuns. "You are seeing the picture of a dirty Jewish infidel searching the body of a Muslim woman," reads a flyer found in Chaman, which shows a Western soldier frisking a burqa-clad female. "If a Muslim does not display his feelings by defending his faith and honor, then he is not a Muslim nor an Afghan...
...German philosopher Immanuel Kant called him the "new Prometheus." Most important, Franklin's fame helped open French hearts--and purse strings--when years later he came calling at Louis XVI's court on behalf of his embattled young nation. As the French financier Turgot would say of the kite flyer from Philadelphia, "He snatched lightning from the sky and the scepter from tyrants...
...travelers, Indigo is attracting almost as much attention for its clever use of secondary airports like Teterboro and, starting in June, White Plains, N.Y. Indigo CEO Pete Pappas, a longtime American executive, is a seasoned pro who sweats the little things--like promising a 6-ft. 8-in. frequent flyer a seat in the spacious exit row for all his trips...