Word: kirks
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Apart from the fact that they both have weird things on their chins, actors ETHAN HAWKE and Kirk Douglas have little in common. But the similarities doubled when Little, Brown announced that it had bought the first literary work by the thinking teenager's sex symbol (Douglas is the proud author of three novels). Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is described by its editor, Jordan Pavlin, as being "about first love and heartbreak, about being turned inside out by the intensity of your own emotion." Little, Brown paid about $300,000 for the novel, roughly 60 times the advance...
...pains; in Moscow. Yeltsin has canceled all engagements until next week, including trips to Norway and the Russian city of Murmansk. RECOVERING. LES PAUL, 80, musician and father of the electric guitar; after collapsing while preparing to travel to a Nashville birthday concert; in Mahwah, New Jersey. OUSTED. G. KIRK RAAB, 59, president and ceo of biotech giant Genentech; following the revelation that he had requested a personal $2 million loan guarantee from Roche Holding Ltd. while negotiating a merger with the firm; in San Francisco. During Raab's five years at Genentech, the company's revenues nearly doubled...
...Captain Kirk never seemed to mind outer space. But before NORMAN THAGARD, left, with cosmonauts, returned from 115 days in orbit on Russia's Mir space station, he had some things he wanted to get off his chest. First, the food was only so-so (tinned perch was a staple). Then there was the lack of news from home. "The cultural isolation is extreme," griped Thagard, who referred to himself as a "lab rat." NASA officials said they have begun to look into the psychological effects of long-term missions in space, where people can indeed hear you complain...
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian withdrew his hostile $20 billion bid to take over Chrysler after failing to line up financing. But spokesmen said Kerkorian might be back later with another offer for the automaker...
...Harvard has always been successful, and theywill be again soon," he says. 'We have goodfreshmen comming in, and [captain-elect] BradKonik, Jason Karmanos, Kirk Nielsen and TommyHolmes should really light...