Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dinner where Jiang spoke, I sat next to Liu Mingkang, a former Chinese central banker who now heads a large financial corporation. He knows well the vagaries of Chinese freedoms; during the Cultural Revolution, he spent 10 years banished to the countryside, where he learned English by listening to the Voice of America on his secret transistor radio while working in the paddies. Now he is planning for his company to set up an online system for stock trading and banking transactions. "As economic freedoms expand," he says, "we are inevitably securing more social freedoms and the ability to exchange...
...sitcom and a fledgling talk show, a girl's got to find some way to get attention. So last week ROSEANNE and the Barr Flies commandeered New York City's legendary downtown club CBGB and cracked some of rock's finer chestnuts. Opening with a Rolling Stones medley, the former Ms. Arnold interpreted Satisfaction in ways Mick Jagger surely never intended and with a refreshing indifference to melody. She screeched her way through My Generation and I Wanna Be Sedated, pausing only to eat chocolate, swill beer and swear, charming the young crowd with her atonal exuberance. If only...
...nearly clinical detail about failed marriages and lives (we might have been spared some of minutiae on the family members who had less to do with the newspaper), Tifft--a former writer for TIME--and Jones forcefully make the point that the self-effacing Ochs-Sulzberger clan got one big thing right: the need to protect and nurture the paper entrusted to them. Although this book is light on the financial and business detail that would permit a fuller judgment of the family's management of their trust, the story of the Ochs-Sulzberger family makes one want to join...
RELEASED. KATHERINE ANN POWER, 50, former student radical; after serving six years in prison for manslaughter in the 1970 death of police officer Walter Schroeder during an armed bank robbery; in Framingham, Mass. Power, who drove the getaway car, spent 23 years underground and surrendered...
DIED. JUDITH EXNER, 65, rumored former mistress of John F. Kennedy and Mob boss Sam Giancana; of breast cancer; in Duarte, Calif. A sometime Rat Pack associate, Exner claimed to have been a conduit between Kennedy and Giancana...