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DIED. LORNA THAYER, 85, actress immortalized by her role as an intractable waitress in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces; in Woodland Hills, Calif. In the movie, her unyielding "No substitutions" to Nicholson's request for toast with his lunch order prompts a prickly exchange that culminates with her disgusted "You want me to hold the chicken, huh?" and a Nicholson retort that has made the scene a fixture of Hollywood highlight reels...
...cushions of equity. Some--like bettors taking chips off a blackjack table--have sold, trading down to smaller places or swapping a city apartment for a calmer, cheaper life in the country. Still others have stayed put and splurged. Lucky Erganian and her husband, now deceased, bought their Woodland Hills, Calif., home in 1982 for $260,000. Today she's in the midst of a six-figure renovation. Real estate agents daily slip flyers onto her porch boasting of the windfalls they have won for her neighbors. "The one I have now," says Erganian, 58, "lists three that sold...
...guns. I grew up surrounded by firearms and the boys who loved them. My father is a bona fide hunting nut who threatened to buy my son a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association for his first birthday. I myself have mowed down a variety of defenseless woodland creatures. I used to be a decent shot with a pistol, and once during the Clinton years, I spearheaded an outing of lefty political scribes for a round of skeet shooting...
...Iraq because someone blundered, yet no heads have rolled as a result of the White House's use of suspect or flawed information to instigate an unnecessary war. Until blame is placed on actual operatives, clerks, bureaucrats and elected officials, the commission's report means nothing. Holmes Brannon Woodland Park, Colorado, U.S. Gaining by Losing Your numbers column said that John Antioco, CEO of the Blockbuster video - rental chain [April 11], received total compensation of $51.6 million last year as the company lost $1.25 billion and its stock fell 47%. Would it follow that if Blockbuster had lost $5 billion...
HOLMES BRANNON -- Woodland Park, Colo...