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...from Jouret. Vuarnet, now in Swiss custody, was one of several well-connected converts to the Solar Temple, many of whom signed over their assets. Investigators suggested that the cult may have amassed as much as $93 million and that part of the money was used to support a posh life-style for Jouret and Di Mambro and to buy houses in Western Europe and Canada. Last week at least five more Temple properties were discovered. Two of them -- an apartment near Montreux, Switzerland, and a villa near Avignon, France -- had been rigged to explode in flames...
John Yossarian, the reluctant bombardier and principled antihero of Catch- 22, is back, older -- he is 68 -- and still trying to convince doctors -- this time at a posh Manhattan hospital rather than at a military clinic on the Italian island of Pianosa -- that he is sick. Yossarian remains wary and weary of a world that holds out the prospect of his own death: "I wish the daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns...
...also to be admired for her tenacity in forcing the Times to yield to her demands to combine both motherhood and a career. Very few women quit a major metropolitan newspaper to have children and find themselves offered a posh spot on the op-ed page instead...
...million families on welfare are no more, and no less, representative of American womanhood than Anita Hill was. But the assault on welfare, like the Senate committee's interrogation of Professor Hill, is an implicit attack on the dignity and personhood of every woman, black or white, poor or posh...
...with the effects of General Motors layoffs in Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, and was structured around his efforts to meet with Roger Smith, who was then CEO of GM. Shambling, wearing sagging jeans and badly in need of a haircut, Moore sought out the elusive chairman in posh offices and clubs. He pursued his subject doggedly, and his innocent, straight-faced directness with the public relations executives and others keeping him away from Smith gave the film a subdued hilarity...