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...article's claims about Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" also brought a swift response from Christie's, where the painting was sold at auction...
...reach out and tap someone. This time, the board will conduct its own search, and the new CEO will take over pronto. The top inside candidate is John Zeglis, AT&T's vice chairman. A swift choice would provide an ironic coda: by hastening Walter's departure, Allen will have hastened his own as well...
...Bill Clinton suddenly demanding his day in court? Not quite. Bennett's new commitment to swift justice may be all for show; most observers still expect the case to be settled out of court. But Bennett's talk of a trial date is a clear sign that the ground is shifting beneath the Jones camp. The tremors began two weeks ago with another high-profile piece of reporting by Stuart Taylor in Legal Times. Taylor's story, and a follow-up article by the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, attacks Jones' credibility by suggesting that her account of what happened...
...would have predicted such a swift outcome back in March, when this all began with the obvious but startling admission by one of the smallest tobacco companies, Liggett Group, that cigarettes are addictive and have been pointedly marketed at kids for years. The confession signaled the first real break from the industry's see-no-evil posture. Reportedly, the event prompted North Carolina Governor James Hunt to call his friend Bill Clinton. The White House then got in touch with Mississippi's Moore to ask if talks with the industry might prove productive...
...verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...