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...pining for a lost love but beginning to moon over the cute new gym teacher. The youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is rebelling by working in a fast-food restaurant and taking a lover who reads Dostoyevsky and rides a motorcycle. In the middle is Jia-Chien (Chien-Lien Wu), interrupting her yuppie bustle for liaisons that can't go anywhere...
Stephen C. Chang '94, president of lien magazine, said he understood that all 275 student organizations cannot be represented in the panels. But Chang said Asian-Americans make up a significant minority of the students...
...could not be sure, based on the papers shown them, who owned it. It seemed to be owned jointly owned by Dallhold, Sotheby's and two Hong Kong corporations. (This conflicts with Sotheby's insistence that it had, and has, no ownership of any kind in Irises, only a lien on the painting.) And on checking the insurance, the lawyers found that no premium had been paid and that the English insurers considered themselves not liable for Irises. Asked about this, Sotheby's CEO Michael Ainslie says, "That is news to me. It was certainly in force according...
Brown's fall from the top of the charts to a four-man prison cell has been going on for several years. In 1985 the IRS slapped a lien on his 62-acre spread on rural Beech Island, about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...
COSTLIEST TYPO When Prudential took out a lien against eight ships owned by United States Lines, someone wrote down $92,885 instead of $92,885,000. So when the shipping firm went bankrupt and sold the liners for $67 million, it + technically owed Prudential only $92,885. The shipping company eventually agreed to give Prudential the proceeds, but deducted $11 million as the price of the errant decimal point...