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...included the edu-tainment company Knowledge Adventure, being sold to CUC International (1995 sales: $1.9 billion), and Edmark, sold to IBM for $80 million. Last summer Humongous Entertainment, which makes the popular Freddi Fish series, merged with powerhouse GT Interactive. "I think it would have been very difficult to retain our market share through the Christmas season without GTI's help," says president Shelley...
...best to enhance Chernomyrdin's image, showing an avuncular, accordion-playing man of the people--unchanged by the enormous wealth that some specialists claim he has accumulated thanks to his connections with Russia's oil and gas industry. But when it comes to real political power, Chubais will probably retain the inside edge. In large part this will be because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure...
...said one Rwandan. "Most of us want to go home." Reports, however, have differed; some arriving refugees said the Zairian rebels had entered the camp as the Hutu militias retreated, while others maintained that the militias were still in the camp this morning. And the militias are struggling to retain their leverage. "Some of the Rwandans were afraid and stayed with them," said Mojinya Makinode, 47, a Zairian who trudged into Goma pushing two of his nine children on the back of a bicycle. "They were controlling them." But for him, and the hordes of others streaming out of Mugunga...
...Board votes to retain the case, the student may appeal that decision to the SFJB, which then makes a final ruling on which body should take the case...
While the Democrats made modest gains in the House, the GOP managed to retain its majority, while actually tightening its grip in the Senate by picking up two additional seats...