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In the final months of last year, faced with a hidden but looming bankruptcy, the Italian food-and-dairy conglomerate Parmalat was desperate for money. Officially, it had j3.95 billion in cash on its books; in reality, it had debts of j14 billion and no cash at all. Unless the...
Reagan is just as brash, if more naive, in Kings Row. The film touches, daintily, on sexually possessive fathers, insane children, vindictive doctors, the hatred of the rich for the poor and, in the relationship of Reagan's character Drake McHugh and his friend Parris (Robert Cummings), a hint of...
Harvard rescinds its offer of admission to Blair Hornstine. Hornstine gained national media attention after she sued her high school to become its sole valedictorian. She later was caught plagiarizing articles she wrote for a local newspaper.
BOTTOM LINE Short-term studies show the diet leads to weight loss, but long-term health effects are unknown. A 53-year-old man sued the Atkins estate last week, claiming the diet caused clogged arteries that required surgery
Gauging Gates' Influence I was offended by your inclusion in the TIME 100 selection of the world's most influential people [April 26] of Bill Gates, whom you described as a "billionaire philanthropist." Gates and his wife attract attention by giving away vast amounts of money through their foundation, but...