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...Name: Excelsior...
...Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past and present - expect it to challenge your prejudices...
...VEGAS CONVENTION AND VISITORS Authority launched an ad campaign this year touting Sin City with one of the nation's more unusual come-ons--"What happens here, stays here." Excelsior, Minn. (pop. 2,400), has started a campaign to lure twenty-and thirtysomethings away from franchise-dominated big cities, with "Secede from Starbucks Nation." Clearly, communities are taking their slogans seriously. A look at some others: --By Kate Novack...
...want to invest in the distressed, doing it through mutual funds will limit your risk. Among those seeking profit in turnarounds are junk-bond funds and such value funds as Longleaf Partners, Third Avenue Value Fund and Excelsior Value and Restructuring Fund. Or you can wait for the reorganized company to issue new common shares. Because by then the old ones will be dead fish...
...York City staff, the surviving employees felt little relief. Not only had they lost cherished colleagues, but they were also struggling with added work--particularly that of the office manager, who was among those who got pink slips. Although the remaining workers at Winstar (since acquired and renamed Excelsior Radio Networks) resigned themselves to doing their own filing and photocopying, they overlooked one small but essential task. Says Christopher Stogdill, 32, an affiliate marketing manager: "We ran out of toilet paper...