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...Bank of Switzerland is trying to acquire Paine Webber. Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest private financial institution, not long ago purchased Bankers Trust in New York and the Baltimore-based Alex. Brown investment bank, but failed to pull off a merger with its longtime domestic rival, Dresdner Bank. Still intent on growth, Dresdner is set to buy Wasserstein Perella, another U.S. deal-maker, for some $1.3 billion...
...opera of the General Hospital type. Traumatized, in what the shrinks call a fugue state, she completely enters the soap's slightly tacky alternative reality. Convinced that its leading hunk, Dr. David Ravell (the amusingly actorish Greg Kinnear), is her long-lost fiance, she sets off for Los Angeles, intent on rekindling this imaginary old flame...
Unfortunately her vehicle of choice, a 1997 Buick LeSabre, is the very one in which Del stashed his stolen drugs. Equally unfortunately, the guys who offed him (Morgan Freeman's pensive Charlie and his kick-ass protege, Chris Rock's Wesley) are in hot pursuit, intent on recovering the goods and silencing the only witness to their crime...
Sitting in his office near Hayden Lake, Idaho, the leader of the Aryan Nations has the grim demeanor of a man under siege. Richard Butler growls that "Jews run the government" and that "Jewish conspirators" are intent on destroying him. A portrait of Butler's hero, Adolf Hitler, hangs on the wall, and white-robed figurines of Ku Klux Klansmen decorate a shelf. He fiddles with a booklet of Nazi war art and clicks his teeth as he talks. At 82, he has failed in his goal of founding a whites-only homeland, and now he faces the prospect...
...whether it's on course to meet them. It should have top-level support from the business and the school, an orientation to acquaint teachers and volunteers with the undertaking at hand and someone to co-ordinate their efforts. A signed agreement is useful not only to clarify the intent and terms of the partnership but also, and perhaps more important, to celebrate its initiation...