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Chernuchin hopes past performance is no guarantee of future results, now that workaday Americans buy stocks and CNBC plays in hair salons. In the go-go '80s, he had friends on the Street who once flew him on a leased jet to Pebble Beach in California because they felt like playing golf. "[They] had more in their pockets than I made in a year," he says. But what stuck with him was the drama in their work. "It was the power and the game. They weren't just interested in closing a deal. They wanted to crush the other...
...state I sometimes think I dreamed the whole thing. On Monday, the newsmagazine covers will feature non-political faces again. Tiger Woods will have won the PGA Championship again. And the only thing left over from Los Angeles will be some souvenir press passes, a few cases of lingering jet lag and an indication of Gore's bounce, or lack of it, to be gleaned from the Sunday night polls...
Monday night was over before it started. Sure, there would be Hillary, delivering a singsongy speech with all the oratorical music of a Boeing jet engine. Sure there would be Bill, requiring the Jaws of Life to pry his fingernails from the podium. But my hopes for truly fine TV were dashed once Loretta Sanchez took herself out of the speaker lineup, thus eliminating any chance that she'd tear into Al Gore's bad-Spanish-speaking ass for hypocritically scotching her Hispanic fund-raiser at the Playboy mansion. (Let's not forget that Hugh Hefner helped give Jimmy Carter...
...other religion is vigorous entrepreneurialism that regards the natural bounty of America as a resource to be enjoyed in a more material way - organized, exploited, developed and tamed with chain saws and hotels and jet skis and snowmobiles. The Book of Genesis grants dominion. It is a proprietary faith: No one better tell me what to do with my own land...
...with two engines failing and a fire on takeoff, the crew had little real hope," says former pilot Manton Fain. About a minute after lifting off, four miles from the runway's end, the plane rolled left and slammed into the ground. Its more than 31,500 gal. of jet fuel erupted in an instant inferno. All 100 passengers--mostly German tourists--and nine crew members were killed, along with five people who were in the small hotel the plane plowed into. It was the first fatal accident for a Concorde and--because the plane's final, desperate struggles were...