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...Rug kingpin saved: FDA panel nixes over-the-counter hair-drug sale...
...weather and O.J. Simpson, and the two local subjects, heat and homicide, utterly eclipsed the Cup, the most popular sporting event on earth. Nevertheless there was a parade, and bunting and flags were hung about, and the city cleaned itself and put out flowers and swept bums under the rug. Outside those who stood to turn a dollar (about 200 million of them were expected to be spent in Chicago during the event) and who therefore were keen on the sport, an air of polite interest invested the town. The atmosphere was reported similar in eight other American venues where...
...sergeant's stripes, I was going to get hurt." She's angered that he remains in the Army in good standing even as it investigates his bigamy. "The military knows he has two wives, but he's still in the Army," she says. "They just sweep it under the rug...
...with his SDECE years well behind him, Marenches doesn't mind sharing a few stories over a two-hour lunch of foie gras and braised veal. "Shortly after your hostages were taken in Tehran in 1979," he recalls, "the Americans asked my advice. I told them, 'When dealing with rug merchants, you need something to trade.' " The count's modest proposal: kidnap the Ayatullah Khomeini and exchange him for the 53 Americans. "After weeks of reconnaissance, my people came up with a detailed plan to land a helicopter near Khomeini's residence, neutralize his guards and whisk him away...
Though he claims to chafe when his competitors make cracks about his "rug merchant" bargaining methods and his "Mediterranean" temperament, Hayek nonetheless displays what he describes as "an exaggerated amount of self- confidence. I want to look in my mirror every morning and say, 'You're great.' " His strength as a businessman, Hayek says, is that he has retained "the fantasy of a six-year-old child. If you can keep and use the curiosity of a child, you can only improve everything around you." He describes his talent as being able to spot new ways of selling "emotional" products...