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...earlier slayings linked to suspected serial killer Andrew Cunanan. Quoting an anonymous law enforcement source, The Miami Herald reported the bullets that killed architect David Madson in Minnesota and cemetery groundskeeper William Reese in New Jersey came from the same .40-caliber handgun that was used to pump two rounds into the back of Versace's head last week. Meanwhile, as the search for Cunanan continued in South Florida, Versace's brother and sister issued a heated statement denying that the fashion designer had ever met, or known, the 27-year-old gay gigolo. Earlier in the day, some...
...couldn't even tell you who shot Mr. Burns, and yet all month long I've been doing my damnedest to watch every Simpsons episode I can find on the 50-some-odd channels the folks at the cable company pump into my house. What's more, lately I've been given to wondering how I was able to live so long without Sportscenter. Finally, and perhaps most embarrassingly, I seem to be becoming some kind of Jim Lehrer Newshour groupie...
...stake in the Philadelphia company, the nation's fourth largest cable operator, with 4.3 million subscribers. Gates and Roberts intend to provide what the other cable guys promised years ago and so far have been unable to deliver: a new set of digital services and a bigger pipeline to pump it through. For viewers that means more channels, better picture and sound, onscreen interactive TV guides and high-speed cable modems that can process instant access to the Internet via cable wires...
...heroic investor who plugs into the cable industry and single-handedly rescues one of the decade's most imperiled collections of stocks. Who is this new-age superhero? None other than Supergeek, a.k.a. the mild-mannered computer kingpin, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft. Last week, after Gates agreed to pump $1 billion into Comcast Corp., Wall Street revalued the entire industry upward by tens of billions of dollars. A buyers' panic rippled through the cable world, and the Standard & Poor's index of cable stocks rose...
...secret of Midwest's success is niche marketing: customer-first service to business travelers from underserved locations in the Midwest, plus nonstop flights to major cities elsewhere. For both, customers pay extra to be pampered. Those premium fares in turn pump up Midwest's revenue per passenger mile, or yield. Midwest's 24 DC-9s feature leather seats set two by two with no center seats. Dealing with a third fewer seats than standard passenger planes have, flight staff can give more individual attention. Besides, says Bob Bell, president of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, "they have hot, freshly...