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...sleek New York City hangout for publishing types, Gollob, 71, reflected on the path that has taken him on scholarly jaunts to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, to Oxford University and even to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. His interest in the Bard is only intensifying, the Houston-born Gollob says with a Texas twang. "You read Shakespeare like you read the Bible," he says. "Because he's rich in ambiguity, you find something new each time you read him, something you've missed...
...Already the diplomatic initiative in the region has passed from Washington to, of all places, the normally unwakable Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday - urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts - a photo album and two videocassettes - each...
...network to cable companies, which reach two-thirds of the nation's viewers. Cox Cable announced in March that it would start delivering high-def shows from the major networks. Comcast launched HDTV last November, while Time Warner Cable offers it in 42 markets, from New York City to Houston...
...August 29, Morrow will publish "The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage," edited by Cathi Hanauer. The 26 bitches who have written original essays include Ellen Gilchrist, Hope Edelman, Pam Houston, Daphne Merkin, former TIME writer Natalie Angier, Vivian Gornick, Jill Bialosky, Helen Schulman, Chitra Divakaruni, Karen Karbo, Kate Christensen, Elissa Schappell, Veronica Chambers and Susan Squire. According to the publisher, "These essays are the culmination of the lessons of the past two decades - the 'me' years, the therapy years, the years that have taught women to express themselves, feel...
...fraud; by order of a court in Cape Town. PLEADED GUILTY. DAVID DUNCAN, former head of the Arthur Andersen operations responsible for the Enron account, to charges of obstruction of justice for "knowingly, intentionally and corruptly" ordering the destruction of documents related to the collapsed energy firm; in a Houston court. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. VLAJKO STOJILJKOVIC, 65, former Serbian police chief and close aide to deposed President Slobodan Milosevic, in Belgrade. Hours after the Yugoslav Parliament passed a law allowing extraditions to a U.N. war crimes tribunal, Stojiljkovic, who was previously indicted, shot himself in the temple standing in front...