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...percent of Motorola Inc. for $300 million and a 5 percent share in Netscape for $150 million. The Prince is already worth $12 billion, and Tuesday's deals will probably net him another sizable chunk of the world's wealth. Maybe he's saving up for a presidential coffee klatch...
Trie, Seng's business partner, is an Arkansas restaurateur and longtime friend of Clinton who is believed to be the DNC contact who brought Wang Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur and the head of a military-owned arms company, to a coffee klatch for political donors hosted by Clinton...
...newest batch of coffee-klatch sitcoms, however, no one seems to be doing much of anything except hanging out. On Friends--which has entered the Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City...
Jackson dodged one impolite question about his prior relationship with Black Muslim Leader Louis Farrakhan, an intemperate and anti-Semitic hatemonger. But otherwise those at the Clifford coffee klatch put on their best company behavior; they even dutifully laughed when Jackson snidely dismissed offers of help from aides to fallen presidential rivals with the line "Sometimes you can make energy from trash." As one breakfast clubber said in summing up the faction's reaction to Jackson, "Liberals like to be abused like this once in a while. It's an easy way of showing how tolerant...
...Name a group of important younger American critics, philosophers or historians," demands Jacoby. The fact is the naming comes hard, even on campuses, where the book has generated particular attention -- as well as trivial pursuit of rebuttal candidates. At Duke, for example, a recent faculty klatch turned up isolated, fiftyish nominees such as Susan Sontag and Joan Didion, but no fresh generation...