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...senior year in college she won Vogue's Prix de Paris, a contest that awarded the winner a year in Paris and an internship with the magazine. Her essay was on the great Russian ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, among others. Diaghilev was a shrewd, sophisticated choice, bound to knock the glossy's one-upping editors back on their heels. Says a Jackie watcher of impeccable credentials: "You could talk with her about Baudelaire, but not about Cromwell...
...last Tuesday, the man who tortured and murdered 33 young men and boys during the 1970s would be executed by lethal injection at the Stateville penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois. Justice would be served, swift and clean, as three chemicals were introduced intravenously into his bloodstream. The first drug would knock him out, the second would suppress his breathing, the last would stop his heart. The procedure would take no more than five minutes. But Gacy would take 18 minutes to die. A clog developed in the delivery tube attached to his arm. Gacy snorted just before death-chamber attendants pulled...
Seriously, have you ever seen a squad with this much depth and so much spunk? It's like the good old days, hard nose, "knock 'em sock 'em, mug 'em if you have to" basketball...
...Time Warner shares to push Seagram's holdings past the 15% mark. If he does, Levin must ponder whether to activate a device known as a "poison pill" designed specifically to prevent any "unfriendly" investor from acquiring more than 15%. Essentially, the company would issue enough new stock to knock a 15% holding down to about 5% or less. That, in effect, would force Bronfman's hand: Seagram could avoid having its ownership diluted only by making an all- cash offer to buy up every last Time Warner share outstanding. At a price of $55 a share, that would cost...
...state trooper, Danny Ferguson, came by her table to relay a message from Clinton: "The Governor said you make his knees knock." Ferguson came back with Clinton's hotel-room number and the message that the Governor wanted her to stop up in a few minutes. She told the Washington Post that she wasn't wary of the invitation because "I was brought up to trust people, and especially of that stature -- you know, a Governor...