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Scali's comments came on the heels of a public announcement earlier this month by 7-Eleven and its parent company, the Southland Corporation. Southland has agreed to purchase 132 of the Massachusetts-based Christy's convenience stores for an undisclosed sum of money and convert them into 7-Eleven franchises...
...which we'll pick and profile the 100 most influential players of this century, we start with the category of leaders, politicians and revolutionaries. Future issues will look at artists and entertainers, business titans, scientists and thinkers, then heroes and inspirations. By the end of 1999 we plan to sum it all up with, among other things, a choice of the Person of the Century. It's not a simple task, but it helps to start by looking at what the great themes of this century have been...
Last year Jonathon S. Jacobson earned a princely sum, $7.6 million in performance based pay, for investing Harvard's endowment. But University officials worried--not whether this was too much--but if it was enough to keep Harvard's king investor...
Viewers will not be looking at a conventional broadcast news set. Instead, CBS News anchor Dan Rather will walk through a computer-generated gallery of some of the century's most luminous and unforgettable faces. "We're using 21st century technology to sum up the 20th century," says Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News. Strolling about electronically among those famous names was thought provoking, says Rather: "Watching the program, participating in discussions and trying to think of candidates for my own private TIME 100, I've had a rare opportunity to reflect on what's important...
...Since there were no Yiddish publishing houses in Montreal, everyone who attended would contribute $10, a large sum in those days, toward the purchase of the [visiting writer's] book so it could be privately published," Wisse recalls. "It was a wonderful house to grow up in, excellent preparation for a career in Yiddish studies, though at the time, the last thing I wanted, of course, was to study Yiddish literature...