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...Party of Democratic Action (S.D.A.) has disrupted opposition rallies and oppressed non-S.D.A. members with brazen disregard for the Dayton agreement. Until last month, Merdzana Fisca, a Bosnian Muslim belonging to an anti-S.D.A. party, was director of a Tuzla detergent factory that survived the war in mint condition under her leadership. One day she arrived at work to find her office locked with all her personal belongings inside; she had been fired--illegally--by S.D.A.-appointed directors above...
...companies. That many of these outfits lacked the fundamental attributes--oh, minor things, such as profits--that sane folks use as the basis for plunking down their money didn't matter. Any company linked to computers or the World Wide Web may as well have been linked to a mint...
Franklin Graham will inherit the family business, and what a business! If the name weren't already taken, Franklin could call the Graham enterprise the Franklin Mint. WILLIAM C. WALKER Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
...same question reverberated after the Thursday sessions, which produced more eye-popping numbers. In 1962 a young John F. Kennedy Jr. was photographed toying with a pearl necklace around the neck of his smiling mother. Lynda and Stewart Resnick, owners of the Franklin Mint Museum, based in Philadelphia, bid $211,500 for what looks like the same triple-strand necklace of simulated (read fake) pearls, offered at $700 to $900. Says she: "I'm a child of the '60s, and the John Kennedy Camelot years were the last time a lot of us were really innocent. That's what this...
...went down the aisles saying 'Joe, your mother's on the phone.... She found your G.I. Joe. Don't worry, he's still in mint condition, but you've got to call her ASAP,'" said Daniel L. Cohen '97, the video-tape operator for the class...