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...billion in revenues, as Halliburton reported in 1998. But scandals over what counts as sales took Xerox down a peg over the last year and have caught up with drug companies Merck and Bristol-Meyers Squibb. The Judicial Watch lawsuit alleges that Halliburton used the revenue-enhancement gimmick to ward off investor scrutiny as the company's financials deteriorated when the oil industry retrenched. Revenues fell anyway, to $12 billion by 2000, Cheney's last year in command...
...CDIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, irreverent, pioneering Disney animator--one of the elite early group called the Nine Old Men--who directed animation on such films as Fantasia, Dumbo and Cinderella; in Arcadia, Calif. Kimball gave a makeover to Mickey Mouse and created Jiminy Cricket, the wisecracking, top-hatted character in Pinocchio. He won an Oscar for his 1969 animated short It's Tough to Be a Bird...
While we have decided to ward off harassment with our paltry broken-Russian expressions, Russian women seem to have accepted this objectification. The proliferation of tight flared pants, sky-high heels and barely-there shirts make the women on St. Petersburg’s streets look like a uniformed parade. Their stick-thin figures seem to have jumped directly out of the pages of the Russian fashion magazines that sit in the corner of my room. Left behind by my host mom’s daughters, the Russian Elles and Vogues display the same fashion spreads and give identical make...
DIED. HENRY (BUDDY) CIANFRANI, 79, flamboyant Democratic strategist and former Pennsylvania state senator who won back an old ward-leader seat in 1988 after serving 27 months in jail in the late '70s on racketeering charges; after a stroke in May; in Philadelphia. His romance with his future wife, journalist Laura Foreman, who covered him at the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times, led Times executive editor A.M. Rosenthal to ask for Foreman's resignation in 1977, reportedly saying, "It's O.K. to f___ elephants, just don't cover the circus...
...Napoleon, Rasputin and Mussolini. DIED. JOHN FRANKENHEIMER, 72, director of 1960s film classics like Birdman of Alcatraz and The Manchurian Candidate; in Los Angeles. Frankenheimer's troubles with alcohol caused his career to suffer in the 1970s and '80s, but he made a comeback in TV movies. DIED. WARD KIMBALL, 88, the Disney animator who first drew Jiminy Cricket; in Arcadia, California. Kimball began his Disney career in 1934 and was part of the team that designed a more expressive Mickey Mouse. He also worked on Pinocchio, Fantasia and Mary Poppins. DIED. JOACHIM EGON FUERST ZU FUERSTENBERG, 79, a member...