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...bank terrorists are L.A. GANG MEMBERS who pulled off 193 heists last year and 363 so far this year. Agents dubbed the first duo they arrested the Nasty Boys, who are thought to have robbed $800,000 from 28 banks since October 1991. The pair, Clarence Sanders, 21, and Harold Walden, 19, were convicted of five of the robberies in November. Prosecutors and the FBI expect the two to get the maximum penalty of 75 years apiece when they appear for sentencing next month...
Only in America has power been passed to a new generation that defines the world in terms of post-cold-war economic realities. The John Kennedy parallel is inescapable -- how vividly his sporting vitality contrasted with the solemn visages of Harold Macmillan, Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. Once again it seems apt to recall William Wordsworth's lines in thrall of the French Revolution: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very Heaven...
...musical to reach the West End since Miss Saigon -- is Kiss of the Spider Woman, which retells the story of Manuel Puig's novel and the noted film. The new version comes from a North American cast and creators, headed by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and director Harold Prince -- the makers of Cabaret, which Kiss often recalls in its silvery visual shimmer, sexual ambiguity, bursts of surreality and blend of grim politics and show-biz glitter. But unlike Cabaret, which used a Berlin nightclub for satiric comment on the rise of the Nazis, Kiss looks to shadowy passages...
...triple anointing, Ford Motor Co. named a new executive crew: Alexander Trotman, Allan Gilmour and Louis Ross. The English-born Trotman is apparently heir apparent to chairman Harold Poling after he retires. Unlike his confreres, Trotman has extensive experience overseas -- and the blessing of the Ford family...
...basic research, which has spawned entire segments of the national economy, including the biotech and computer industries. "What we're all worried about is that there will be less and less room to maneuver in basic research, the area that put us where we are," says Dr. Harold Varmus, a Nobel-prizewinning microbiologist from the University of California, San Francisco. "If we move our investment into some narrowly defined social contract, 10 years from now we will have nothing...