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...President Clinton's team of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, a Wall Street star, and Larry Summers, the high-wattage Harvard economist. Yet, as a Bush adviser notes, Rubin didn't meddle either and got help from a bull market: "When people were getting 25% return on their investments, all Bob Rubin had to do was breathe...
...actor, screenwriter and musician, but among Billy Bob Thornton's numerous talents, one would have to leave out matrimony. This should have been apparent to Angelina Jolie, seeing how she was his fifth wife, but as the couple made all too public, theirs was a deep and blinding love. Now, despite their protestations of undying love and unending sex, despite their having tattoos of each other's name and adjoining grave plots, Jolie has filed for divorce after two years of marriage. Since they adopted a baby in May from a Cambodian orphanage, she told US magazine, their priorities have...
DIED. ALAN LOMAX, 87, folk-music collector who helped discover Woodie Guthrie, Jelly Roll Morton, Muddy Waters and others; in Sarasota, Fla. Described as "a missionary" by Bob Dylan, Lomax brought American folk music to the rest of the world, influencing the British skiffle craze of the 1950s, which gave rise to the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon...
...Bob Phillips, 58, a public-relations executive from Memphis, Tenn., having a lifelong network of friends has been the best way to meet women since his second divorce four years ago. "You just have to look at the network right around you and let people know you are ready to start meeting people; I've found that works best," says Phillips, who has dated about 20 women since his divorce and is now seeing someone regularly...
...supermarkets. But Smile's management also has reason to hoist a few - in celebration. In April the Internet bank signed up its 500,000th account holder, and it continues to add clients at a rate of about 20,000 a month. "We are on target," says ceo Bob Head, who adds that his goal - though a very long-term one - is to "wipe the big banks out." Online banking is growing steadily across Europe. NetValue, a market research firm, says the number of unique visitors to Internet bank sites in eight large European markets jumped 15% between October...