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...much merged $115 billion First Chicago NBD Corp. All this came just a week after insurance and brokerage giant Travelers Group announced plans to tie the knot with Citicorp, the second largest bank in the U.S.--a $76 billion marriage, not just of services but of two industry titans: Sanford Weill, who emerged from a messenger job at Bear Stearns to conquer Wall Street; and John Reed, the no-compromises Citibanker who manhandled his firm back from the edge of insolvency in the late 1980s. Suddenly the world of finance began to look less like the Norman Rockwell thrifts that...
...Yeah. But not just for big's sake. Neither is this deal about building another empire or another fortune for its chief architect, Sanford I. Weill, the ever hustling CEO of Travelers. It will, of course, do those things. Since last Monday's announcement, Travelers shares have jumped nearly 10%, giving Weill incremental wealth of $123 million. That gets him to $1 billion--before stock options, where CEOs make the big dough...
Manned by James Carroll, Boston Globe columnist and former Catholic Priest; Rabbi Sanford Seltzer of Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline; Christoph Wolff, celebrated Bach scholar and Dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; and Stephan Jay Gould, a self-proclaimed "agnostic Jew" and Harvard professor of paleontology, the panel neither skirted nor mistreated the issue...
...stop blaming everyone else for their troubles. I commend independent counsel Kenneth Starr for his perseverance in the face of denial. Starr didn't bring the thunder down from the heavens onto the Clintons; they did it themselves. I am ashamed that Clinton is still in office. TARYN SANFORD Sheffield...
...subdivision near Kissimmee, Mitchell found his 8-year-old son still sleeping safely--and soundly--in his room. There were, of course, tales of tragedy as well. Five-year-old Ashley Himes was the sole survivor after a tornado ripped apart her family's triple-wide mobile home in Sanford, in Seminole County. Her mother Penny Hall, 21, her mother's fiance Kevin Taylor, 23, and her grandparents Edward and Debra Hall were all killed. Ashley was found wandering in a daze in some nearby woods. "You know, she's my only grandchild, and I'm just glad...