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...richer. Thanks to record sales of everything from derivatives to new stock and bond issues to merger financing, the pretax profits of U.S. brokers and investment banks zoomed to an unprecedented $8.9 billion last year. "I see no reason why 1994 won't be better than 1993," exults Sanford Weil, chairman of Travelers Cos., which owns Smith Barney Shearson. "We're having a great time...
...first extensive look at the newly cleaned Last Judgment, which will go on view in April at an Easter week Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II. Its return to the public realm in dramatically improved condition will be an important event for both art and religion. Notes Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, a New York University art historian who has followed the project: "Our idea of what art tells us about God is shaped by Michelangelo more than anyone else, and by the Last Judgment more than any of his other works...
...little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even worse, IBM has been bogged down by endless rounds of painful restructurings and cutbacks. "IBM is no longer the monolithic monster that strikes fear in the hearts of competitors," says Ulric Weil, a leading computer consultant. "It has proved to be quite mortal after...
That overconfidence sometimes worries Weil. Although she's convinced her team to wear knee and elbow pads when they practice, helmets are still unpopular...
...friction," Weil says. "I've seen bikers intentionally knock skaters down ... and curse them out. I've had people elbow...