Word: pilgrims
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Forget for a moment The Godfather--the 21 million-selling book and the movie that virtually created the Mafia as literary and cinematic subject. Forget The Fortunate Pilgrim, The Sicilian, The Last Don and other best sellers. Forget Superman, Earthquake and the rest of the blockbusters. Forget two Academy Awards. Forget that he wrote some of the best stuff ever about the American family and the Italian-American immigrant experience. Forget that all this was done by the son of illiterate immigrant parents...
...MBTA's new Plymouth line takes visitors south to the heart of the Old colony. Plymouth ($8 round trip), home of the infamous Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim's first permanent settlement in the New World, remains a vintage seaside port...
...MBTA's new Plymouth line takes visitors south to the heart of the Old Colony. Plymouth ($8 round trip), home of the infamous Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrim's first permanent settlement in the New World, remains a vintage seaside port...
...faring too well either. Close to half the 600 or so mutual fund families experienced net withdrawals in the first quarter of 1999, and floundering funds were merged out of existence at a record pace last year, according to Lipper Inc. Once-high-flying firms such as Stein Roe, Pilgrim Baxter and Berger Associates are reassigning dud managers and hustling to attract new money. Says Stephen Cone, president of customer marketing at Fidelity Investments. "We're not going to see the phenomenal growth of the past, and that may be an alarm bell for smaller firms. Their jobs have...
...agent has Sun Tzu on his desk; he was the first person I know of who did that." Apple, for Jobs, was a messianic imperative: give the world a Mac, and the rest of the Flower Power agenda would follow. The classic-rock sound track wittily comments on his pilgrim's progress: dropping acid; dodging cops in People's Park; undergoing primal-scream therapy; abusing employees during midnight prowls down Apple's halls; inexplicably refusing to acknowledge paternity of his baby daughter Lisa, who lives with her mother in an Oregon commune...