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...outsider, not quite sure whether to be excited or exasperated by the science-fictive surfaces of that alien world. The second is that they find a focus for their mingled fascination and frustration in an unfathomable Japanese love object. The gracious and redeeming delight of Audrey Hepburn's Neck (Pocket Books; 290 pages; $21), a first novel by Alan Brown, an American, is that it turns all the standard tropes--and expectations--on their head by presenting Japan from the inside out, and yet with a sympathetic freshness that most longtime expatriates have long ago abandoned...
ANGRY INVESTORS CLOSED OUT THE Decade of Greed with demands that executive compensation be tied to company performance. In other words, CEOs should pocket a bundle only if their companies make a bundle. And make a bundle they did. By laying off employees, merging and acquiring at a record pace, slicing employee health-care costs and scoring strong sales, U.S. companies enjoyed record profits...
...bodies press against each other, breathing hot on each others' lips. He caresses her leg, pressing her yielding body against the wall. A book falls as he unzips his jeans. "Wait," she pants, "do you have protection?" He pulls out a condom from his loosened pocket...
...operation to trim back his bulbous nose), he spent millions each month bribing a network of corrupt officials in the government. Those payments made him untouchable during the administration of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Now, however, they make him dangerous: the list of public officials in his pocket could cause a scandal of enormous proportions...
...country, playing competitively until the late 1980's. Known earlier in his career as New York Fats, he changed his name to Minnesota after Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats character in the 1960 movie "The Hustler." Fats was a consummate showman who stuffed $100 bills in the breast pocket of his suits when he played. His exact age was unknown. Friends say he was born January 19, 1900, but a 1966 biography placed his birthdate on January 19, 1913. Fats himself always declined to clarify, once telling a reporter: "No one on this Earth knows...