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...Perez Balladares has appointed Noriega's former Foreign Minister, Jorge Ritter, as his Minister for Canal Affairs and chairman of the new 11-member Panama Canal Authority, the agency that will run the facility after 2000. In addition, the President has invited a storm of criticism by naming a passel of relatives and political cronies to the Canal Authority board. They include his former son-in-law, his cousin, two of his wife's cousins and his campaign finance chairman...
...cutting-edge world of blue jeans, reliable just doesn't cut it. While Levi's has remained a wardrobe fixture, its market share has shrunk to an uncomfortable fit and sales have slipped. The San Francisco-based company's pocket has been picked by a passel of fashion-conscious, private-label designer jeans and edgy upstarts in the $10.6 billion industry. The new entrants have hit the shelves with stylish cuts attractive to both teens and folks north of 20. "It's not about the brand of the jeans but the shape," explains Gasner. "Jeans are always in style...
During his downtime, Spielberg wasn't exactly lying in a hammock monitoring cloud patterns. As the head of Amblin Entertainment he shepherded a passel of hit movies, including The Flintstones, Casper and Twister. He helped develop TV's ER, masterminded a CD-ROM (Steven Spielberg's Directors Chair) and oversaw the giddy, multithrill Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios, Hollywood. Oh, yes, he also started, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, a little outfit called DreamWorks SKG; Spielberg oversees the live-action film unit. And in the noblest spin-off generated by a hit movie, the director of Schindler...
...accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin cap for a top hat. (A century later, fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver won a Senate seat and a passel of presidential primaries when he made a coonskin cap his own symbol of country roots...
...targeting a little town of no industrial or military significance. For me and my neighborhood friends, the most dramatic exposure to reality came the day a Luftwaffe Me-109 fighter slipped low over the houses, its engine silent, and crashed in a nearby meadow. We raced after it, a passel of kids looking for adventure. By the time we got to the landing site, rescuers had pulled the pilot from the cockpit-dead. The aircraft had so many bullet holes it looked like a sieve. We were stunned into silence...