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...Lexington, Ky., has always had a pretty high opinion of itself. The Idle Hour Country Club, the inner sanctum for Thoroughbred horse breeders and other bluebloods, is about as smugly exclusive as such places get. Lexington's upper-class chat just now should be preoccupied with the annual Keeneland yearling sale in three weeks. Instead, each day the conversations are thicker with unsavory gossip: a federal grand jury meeting in Lexington has been hearing testimony reportedly about cocaine use, illegal gambling and prostitution, and will reconvene next week. The New York Times stirred up the city even more with...
Lambert, 44, has been a friend of Brown's since their University of Kentucky days together, and the two were business associates a decade ago, when Brown was board chairman of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain. In April, federal agents raided Lambert's Lexington house. Apparently tipped off in advance about the raids, Lambert fled to Europe. The agents' haul included cocaine, shotguns and suspicious documents...
Marilyn Sewell Lexington...
Patriots Day in Boston can be reduced to a single concept--the Marathon. For 24 hours yesterday. Beantown stretched 26 miles. 385 yards. No more, No less. And for the 6500-plus official entrants, and the countless unofficial runners. Lexington was the farthest halite from their minds. Surviving Heartbreak Hill and crossing the finish fine at the Pro was the only challenge...
...OPEC first flexed its muscle a decade ago. OPEC'S action, said U.S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, is "good news for the U.S. and for the world economy. It will mean less inflation and a strong shot in the arm to the budding economic recovery." Data Resources, a Lexington, Mass., consulting firm, estimates that cheaper oil will boost America's real G.N.P. growth rate this year from a previously projected 1.7% to 2.2% and will slow expected inflation from...