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...division. "Personally, I wouldn't put it past Joe to lie if it benefited him," says Tony Lundquist, a former Tyson pilot who now runs Wal-Mart's aviation division. A onetime protege of Henrickson's, Tyson pilot Randy Parette, refers to his former mentor as "a 600-lb. gorilla who pretty much did what he wanted in the face of rules and common sense...
...says video games are dead? Not this digital gorilla, fetched from the old arcade game and redrawn in eye-popping 3-D by the same Silicon Graphics computers that brought the dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park. Donkey Kong Country has been Nintendo's smash hit of this Christmas season. In fact, the game in its first week of release in November brought in more money (nearly $35 million) than the Disney studio's box-office gorilla The Santa Clause...
...also offers a questionable platform. While not stridently anti-government, he has said that "we need to get that 500-pound gorilla off the back of our employers." A claim which should not particularly resonate for Massachusetts at this economic moment where a more than three percent statewide lowering of the unemployment rate has occurred...
Want to change values? Change government, the 800-lb. gorilla whose sheer bulk and reach powerfully influence private conduct. Government, after all, is the business of politicians. Preaching is best left to the clergy. They have the practice and the standing...
...temporarily suspended its Rwandan refugee repatriation effort in the camps surrounding Goma, Zaire. The move came after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...