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...this week. Odds are that Arafat will eventually make good on his private pledge to send his negotiators to Washington, but he started to stall in public. He called the P.L.O. team home to Tunis for weekend consultations before giving Clinton an official reply. The purpose was probably to patch together another consensus within the P.L.O., but it still delayed a commitment...
...candy store around the corner from the Body Shop is expected to open tomorrow or Friday. It will feature more than 250 bins filled with jelly beans, wax bottles, licorice, Sour Patch kids and various other delights...
...winning product for the season so far appears to be Power Rangers action figures, the '90s answer to the Cabbage patch craze of the mid-'80s. The small plastic Ninja figurines are already sold out in most stores...
...genetic manipulation of the creepiest sort. Life-forms can be patented, which means they can be bought and sold and potentially traded on the commodities markets. Human embryos are life-forms, and there is nothing to stop anyone from marketing them now, on the same shelf with the Cabbage Patch dolls...
Even as the lawyers fretted over the child's heir rights, the tabloid tom- toms spread the word that the infant's moniker was a belated art-of-the- deal tribute to real estate air rights. The eponymous Trump Tower was built in 1983 with the help of that patch of Manhattan sky owned by Tiffany & Co. How much more tasteful had the parents simply explained that Tiffany rhymes with epiphany...