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...SUPREME COURT: Sure, you don't get out much, but really, what were you thinking? Doff those robes, and read the tabloids in the grocery checkout line. This suit you let fly wasn't about whose neck got whiplashed, but about everything the Jerry Springer culture thrives on: fame, fortune, affairs, revenge, big book deals, bigger hair. How could you think a President would not be "distracted...
Looks like checkout time for Hilton Corp.'s Stephen Bollenbach. After an entertaining nine-month battle, replete with name calling, to buy ITT and its prized Sheraton properties and Caesars hotels and casinos, Bollenbach came up empty. But the escape from Hilton cost ITT its independence. Fearful that ITT shareholders would accept Hilton's $70 a share offer in two weeks, ITT chairman Rand Araskog pulled a rabbit out of a hat by agreeing to sell ITT to Starwood Lodging for $82 a share. That's 17% more than Hilton's "final" offer...
...medical certificate. There's no evidence that he'd been drinking that day. "He was a solid pilot," says Tom Poberezny, president of the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh, Wis. The man who recently sold Denver the nine-year-old plane says the singer took it up for two checkout flights before the final, fatal one. The investigation still being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board may test another theory: that Denver had a freak collision with a pelican. But unless the NTSB finds otherwise, Denver, his plane and experimental aircraft in general should probably be presumed innocent...
...more memories like that. Retail chains are working hard to link their brands with the music younger customers want to hear. In recent years the Gap, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, the Pottery Barn and others have produced their own CDs and sold them at their checkout counters. Last week a new player was announced: Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker...
...sell more newspapers. The prices were a bargain for the big national dailies (half of what the average American pays) and, heck, there were "4 easy ways to subscribe." The Crimson even worked out a handy joint venture with The Coop, whereby students could order their papers at the checkout counter. "Geez, as long as I'm spending $500 on books this semester, why not spend another $45 and get The Boston Globe," many a victim of clever marketing thought...