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DIED. DAVID BEGELMAN, 73, film producer; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Though Begelman was president of Columbia Pictures during a flush period in the '70s (his tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that...
...priority of the parents and the President. In the home and in the government, clamoring for the V chip is a sign that we are looking for yet another way to find a convenient and politically popular Band-Aid without putting in the real effort to heal the gaping wound...
...persisted for more than a year. Mayo specialists diagnosed the problem as bone cancer and subjected Vonk to three operations; Vonk also spent six months in a partial body cast and a year on crutches. The bills were high, all right: even with his insurance benefits Vonk, now 33, wound up owing Mayo $15,000. He appealed under an "indigent patient" program and got that reduced to $5,000, but he will still be paying Mayo $100 a month for a long time. Nonetheless Vonk is so delighted to be walking around cancer-free that he has named a newborn...
Several years later, Harrison went to New Yorkand studied the annual reports of The New YorkTimes. He approached the management with a plan todiversify the corporation's holdings by purchasinga series of small newspapers. The company gaveHarrison the green light, and he wound up managingabout three dozen small papers in the South...
...with its own acronym, stationery and bureaucracy for every problem." That said, Clinton defended the organization against congressional critics. "Turning our backs on the U.N. is no solution. It would be shortsighted and self-destructive," Clinton said. "We reject the siren song of the new isolationists." Bosnia, the open wound of U.N. failure, received only a passing reference to U.N. work "in the Balkans to isolate aggressors...