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America's retailers have precious little to cheer about these days. Many of the best-known U.S. department-store chains are up for sale. Garment sales have been stagnant, and profits are squeezed. But then there is Donna Karan, a women's-clothing designer whose creations send department-store executives into fits of giddy optimism. The Queen of Seventh Avenue, as the fashion press calls her, Karan is chief executive officer and head designer of a five-year- old company that expects to rake in $115 million in revenues this year. Her sportswear line arrived in stores eight months...
...pace quickens in the second act, which is saved by faster scenes and more entertaining song and dance. The White Knight (Tom Hale) does a rap to cheer Alice while the other actors dance. The final ensemble number, a "lobster dance" set to Beethoven, is funny and very original. The act drags only during a mainly unintelligible "Jabberwocky Battle," which leaves the audience guessing at its multi-lingual signifigance...
...shuttle Atlantis lifts off this week from its Cape Canaveral launch pad as planned, astronomers will let out a long-delayed cheer. At last the Galileo mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...
...alums had plenty to cheer about. Harvard, Cornell and Brown entered the day undefeated in the Ivy League, and only Cornell emerged unscathed. The Big Red tallied a pair of late-game touchdowns--one on a 40-yd. interception return--to snag a 29-17 triumph...
...generation men have fought over the fabled ruins of Angkor Wat, the colonial palaces of Phnom Penh, and the rich rice paddies along the Mekong River, leaving more than a million Cambodians dead and their land in ruins. But at long last the shell-shocked country had something to cheer. Cambodians crowded the streets last week to hail the withdrawal of the last of the 200,000 Vietnamese troops who had occupied their country for nearly eleven years. Across the eastern border in Viet Nam, there was also celebration. Senior officials embraced the leaders of the returning units, and parents...