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...make significant concessions. While analysts think that Tisch's deal could be revived by a sweetened offer, other bidders could also emerge. The most likely is Hong Kong financier Sir Run Run Shaw, who owns about 10% of Macy's. Meanwhile, the company continues to hang by a slender thread...
...trees that had sucked this small desert area nearly dry, clearing the way for the reappearance of palm trees, willows and migratory waterfowl. Off the coast of Scotland, Bernard Planterose, a warden with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and his wife Emma have planted 20,000 slender saplings -- downy birch, rowan, oak and Scotch pine -- to bring back the forest on tiny, windswept Isle Martin. And at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, ground crews and volunteers have returned some 280 hectares (700 acres) of former cornfields to a rustling expanse of big bluestem and Indian...
Back in Haiti, Mr. Miracle had been an embattled figure, the tumultuous center of a brewing storm. After the Duvalier dynasty was overthrown in 1986, the slender but resilient priest slowly emerged as the embodiment of hope. Aristide's church was filled with the excitement that lit up Haiti's poor, its unemployed, its peasantry and most of all its youth, when he and other liberationists taught that there was a slim possibility for democratic change...
...slender former executive of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International clearly feared for his life. Speaking before a Senate subcommittee last week, Masihur Rahman told how a fellow B.C.C.I. official had threatened to shoot him if he exposed the rampant fraud and corruption at the heart of the bank. According to Rahman, the colleague warned him, "I've personally killed people in my life, and I'd use the same...
Every Saturday morning at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in West Hollywood, Marianne Williamson steps to the pulpit before a packed house. But she is no ordinary minister: the church has been rented and the message is decidedly New Age nondenominational. Impeccably groomed and clad in designer clothes, the slender brunet launches into a sermon that mixes Christian exhortations, meditative slogans and psychotherapeutic advice: "Align your mind with God and watch miracles happen." Then she saunters down the nave to "share" with the audience. "Anytime you think someone owes you something, it's a limit on your happiness," she counsels...