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...billion in debts. Icahn currently owns 90% of TWA's stock, but he would gladly dispose of his holdings if it means freedom from the financially troubled carrier. Says Robert Joedicke, an investment analyst at Shearson Lehman: "Icahn will do just about anything to extricate himself from this mess...
...Olympics have got into a mess, in part, because they are so successful. More athletes competed in Barcelona and more medals were won than in any previous Olympics. More spectators watched it all happen, live and on television. All of which is bound to please the companies that clothe, feed and otherwise remunerate the athletes. The goals of the sponsors (among them the company that publishes this magazine) are straightforward. They hope that you and those with access to your credit cards will watch an event, feel good about the fingernail polish displayed by the winner, then dash...
...this still matters, despite Perot's exit. As they are all saying now, including George Bush and Bill Clinton, your anger over our national mess is a source of political energy that should be harnessed, a message that must be heard...
Clinton dispensed with losers' night, a Democratic tradition whereby those vanquished in the primaries get to take one last prime-time swipe at the winner. Jesse Jackson's ranting took place off-camera at a Don't Mess with Jesse rally at Harlem's Apollo Theater. By the time he took to the convention stage on Tuesday, half-glasses perched professorially on his nose, the anger seemed to have gone out of him. He still had the lyrics, but the music was missing. The Democrats' other problem child, former California Governor Jerry Brown, got only 20 minutes...
...Year of the Woman may be the most overworked cliche of the 1992 political season. But at this convention, as Clinton put it, the women made up "a league of their own." Mostly on the outside when the men in charge were creating the S&L mess, running up the deficit and awarding themselves a midnight pay raise, women candidates -- including the Democrats' Senate aspirants -- are now reaping the benefit of a widespread yearning for new faces and wholesale change. Women's rights -- particularly the right to choose an abortion -- were one of the convention's most prominent themes. Apart...