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...objective should be to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts," he said. "It is my responsibility now...to try to recommend what I believe will be the best system of governance for (the initiatives...
...Paula Coughlin's lawsuit against the Las Vegas Hilton--where she claims she was groped during the 1991 Tailhook convention--went to trial today. She unexpectedly settled with Tailhook, an organization of naval aviators, last Friday; but the deal with the hotel fell through. She is seeking an unspecified sum from the Hilton Hotel Corp. for negligence. Jury selection began today in a court case that is expected to last five weeks...
Such problems make executives like Steve Harris, Pacific Bell's vice president for external affairs, sound uncharacteristically diffident in an industry full of grand predictions. His sum-up: "It's too early to call this race...
Bidding wars for the audio rights to potential best sellers are becoming nearly as heated as those waged over movie rights. Tom Clancy's newest novel, Debt of Honor, was picked up by Random House Audio for a record sum -- reportedly $1 million. Though sales of a typical book on tape still represent only a fraction of the hardcover sales (usually 10% or less), the numbers are climbing. The Bridges of Madison County, read by author Robert James Waller, sold 163,000 audio copies. Some 250,000 tapes of John Grisham's latest novel, The Chamber, have been shipped...
...something different now from what it once was, what was it? By most accounts, it first emerged among urban blacks, for whom it could be both a defense against a hostile world and the sum of the special insights of life under pressure. Ginsberg, who with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs forms part of the Holy Trinity of Beat literature, recalls that the term hip migrated into mainstream speech from the drug culture and the jazz world it intersected. "There it meant tolerant. It was a word used among junkies. It implied a knowingness and understanding...