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Still, one can ask how a half-century of living and nearly a quarter-century's reign as the most successful moviemaker in history affect the man who took out a patent on perennial childhood. From the films he made as a 12-year-old, through such defining blockbusters as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, to the darker Empire of the Sun and the harsh, self-critical Hook--which behind the raucous derring-do sounds like a cry for help from a man afraid that his personal fountain of youth has run dry--Spielberg...
...Harvard Crimson softball team continued its reign of terror yesterday, rolling over the Nieman Fellows 23-2 at Cambridge Commons...
...return to Kinshasa and hold elections while finally acknowledging he is too ill to be a candidate. But as night fell in Gabon, the presidential plane still sat in the Libreville airport. The possibility remains that despite his protestations, the 66-year-old dictator will end his 32-year reign by flying not south to Kinshasa but north to France. "Even if Mobutu does fly to France, he will almost certainly still be vowing to return to Zaire," says TIME's Peter Graff from Nairobi. Western diplomats are hoping he stays away. "With Mobutu absent, (US envoy) Bill Richardson...
DIED. ANDRES RODRIGUEZ, 73, iron-fisted Paraguayan general turned President who overthrew his repressive boss, Alfredo Stroessner, in 1989; of cancer; in New York. Stroessner's right-hand apparatchik for most of the dictator's nearly 35-year reign, Rodriguez abruptly unlearned his loyal habits when he was elected President after the 1989 coup, urging democratization. He silenced skeptics by voluntarily stepping down in 1993, but the grand gesture was later tainted by persistent charges of drug smuggling...
...mere year's worth--they could be worth more than half a billion dollars. And that is in addition to salary, bonus and free rides at Space Mountain. Counting the options, his 1996 compensation comes to $204 million. While Disney stockholders have done well under Eisner's long reign, Eisner himself has done even better. "Shareholders are starting to wonder whether it is just too much," says David Leach, executive vice president of Compensation Resource Group, a consulting firm based in Pasadena, California...