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Delegates from the Blackfeet proposed a deal that would let Anschutz develop oil reserves on their impoverished Montana reservation in return for leaving the canyon untouched. The meeting ended with a polite exchange of business cards and some slight hope for a future compromise, but no conclusive agreement...
...composer-lyricist Jonathan Larson earns our tears even before we walk into the theater. He died, tragically, of an aortic aneurysm just weeks before his soon-to-be-a-hit Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone...
...think the likelihood is a holding pattern with slight deterioration. But lots of things can happen...
...Commerce Department had more good news: New single-family home sales rose 0.8 percent to an annual rate of 928,000 in May, after falling a revised 4.5 percent to 921,000 units in April. Another slight surprise for forecasters, who'd expected an average hike of 900,000 units, according to a survey by Briefing.com...
...Dark and intense with close-cropped black hair, Kim spent a year roaming around North Korea stealing to stay alive before escaping to China. (As with all of the other North Koreans mentioned in this story, Kim's name has been changed to protect his identity.) An orphan, his slight, wiry frame makes him look much younger than his 18 years. The Chinese have already arrested him on several occasions and sent him back: the last time he was put in a North Korean labor camp for repeat offenders. He and his older brother overpowered the guard and ran away...