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...beat that bogey, he concedes, he can't simply offer a wide array of financial products. Customers won't buy them purely on convenience. The failure of financial "supermarkets" at American Express and Sears proved that in the '80s and today the number of small community-oriented banks is growing in towns where mergers have wiped out local institutions, leaving corporate branches and higher fees in their wake. "You have to be a low-cost provider," Weill emphasizes...
...native New Yorker, Smith, 43, has lived in Paris since 1991. He had kicked around the American entertainment industry as both a singer and an actor, playing nightclubs and doing bit parts in '80s brat-pack movies, but like too many jazz musicians before him, he has found a more receptive audience in Europe, where he has starred in musicals and performed regularly with French pianist Claude Bolling's big band. Smith describes being hounded for autographs by fans as young as 12 who can rattle off jazz history, whereas "kids back home don't even know who Billie Holiday...
DIED. WENDY O. WILLIAMS, 48, radically raunchy star of the '80s punk band the Plasmatics who shocked fans with her onstage shenanigans (chain-sawing guitars sometimes clad in little more than strategically placed electrical tape); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Storrs, Conn...
...captors has seen the death as a way to wash his hands: "We are clean now," said his jailer, Nuon Nou. So is the U.S., Thailand and Singapore -- a tribunal might have brought to light just how much they helped him evade capture in the '80s...
...began with a common-sense conviction that the Soviets were not a people to be contained but a system to be defeated. This put him at odds with the long-held view of the foreign-policy elites in the '60s, '70s and '80s, but Reagan had an old-fashioned sense that Americans could do any good thing if God blessed the effort. Removing expansionary communism from the world stage was a right and good thing, and why would God not smile upon...