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...film units, and two years after he sued for what he saw as his rightful share of profits from the movies he shepherded there, the two sides settled. "Enough is enough!" Katzenberg was told by David Geffen, the DreamWorks partner who brokered the settlement with Disney board member Stanley Gold. "This time it's for real. It can get done, and therefore it should get done." It got done, early last week, at Geffen's Malibu beach home...
There were plenty of good stories waiting to be discovered too--"eight- or nine-year overnight sensations," said Nike president Thomas Clarke. After all, this is a veteran group whose members have known one another and played together for a decade in some cases. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1996, and some, including Akers, were around in 1991, when the team won the inaugural World Cup, held in China, where the event apparently was kept a state secret. Indeed, the team barely played the next year because U.S. Soccer couldn't afford to pay anyone...
DIED. MARSHALL WAYNE, 87, Olympic diver; in Hendersonville, N.C. At the 1936 Berlin Games, Wayne won a gold medal and a silver medal by beating his German opponents, earning Hitler's displeasure...
...where muggings and more violent crimes are rarely out of the news. Despite plans to clean up Johannesburg and revive its commercial heart, the country's northern gateway remains economically distressed. The Carlton, the city's main hotel, closed down last year. To avoid the dangers of the former gold-mining center, many visitors begin their stay instead in the wealthy new Rosebank-Sandton area to the north, which offers luxury hotels, office blocks and shopping malls. From there they travel to the eastern game parks of Mpumalanga (formerly the eastern Transvaal), the casino resort of Sun City...
...funny thing happened: while affluent travelers are plunking down large sums for lavish trips to faraway places, ordinary consumers have begun to balk. The millennium may not be such a travel gold mine after...