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...also present, Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell.) "Spitzer was harsh, irate, yelling at times," one of the lawyers told TIME. Spitzer said he was fed up with their haggling, that they should be ashamed of what they had done to investors, that they were acting "like children in a sand box." He told them to settle at once or he would start bringing cases. At the end, he said, "Any questions?" The group was silent. Knowing that he had followed up on a similar threat to Merrill Lynch, the banks caved. Spitzer announced the settlement two days later...
...young are being led into religious instruction through play. At St. Simon's Episcopal Church in Conyers, Ga., toddlers have their own altar, at which they can practice setting up for church services with small candles, prayer books and Bibles. In a Bible lesson on Creation, they played with sand to represent God's earth and crawled through a tent to touch the "heavens" painted on its ceiling. Says Nicole Botkin, the church's Christian-education supervisor: "Parents help children with development in motor skills and language during the first years, so why not teach spirituality as well...
...left the Kenyatta family alone after the death of Jomo. Kenyatta (who refused TIME's request for an interview) talks about the need for moral regeneration in Kenya but fudges the question of whether he would prosecute corrupt leaders. "I would like us to draw a line in the sand," he told a press conference recently. "Let's learn from the mistakes of the past and move together into the future." The opposition, a newly formed alliance of longtime Moi opponents and disgruntled former Moi allies known as the National Rainbow Coalition, sniffs victory. The united front is proving popular...
SKIMMING Vessels equipped with skimmers recover the oil from the surface of the water. Onshore, workers with shovels take up the tedious work of scooping up the sludge, along with any oily sand and debris from the beach...
...dimensions for each. The principal objective was to cleverly occupy, divide and utilize space rather than to represent the world. In a technique he called "Spatial Concept," Fontana blended small, round holes with a variety of substances and glued objects - including thick paint, glitter, colored stones and sand - to draw the viewer's eyes in a controlled swirl of fanciful symmetry while almost surreptitiously adding third and fourth dimensions. His large, egg-shaped works from the La Fine di Dio (The End of God) series of 1963-64, where a uniform surface is entirely pocked with deep gashes, could just...