Word: dealing
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MARCEL MARCEAU Top mime settles lawsuit with London theater company. Now take the deal, and shut...
BERNIE EBBERS WorldCom-Sprint deal looks dead. Who'd really want to be part of a mega-media merger anyway...
They have only gradually begun to realize the implications of the deal. Mormons now own an estimated 32% of the town land. An extension of Brigham Young University sits where there had been a Catholic boarding school. Houses in the Flats once worth $20,000 now go for $250,000, and tax assessments have risen accordingly--longtime residents have every incentive to sell and leave. Meanwhile, temples like Nauvoo's serve as magnets for Mormon retirees, who take up spiritual tasks such as baptizing deceased ancestors of believers. It will take just 900 such immigrants to effect a Mormon majority...
...hard to imagine Millard, the Mormon planner, uttering "place of sin." A worried-looking, bespectacled man provided to the town by the church as part of the temple deal, he is careful to use the word we in discussing the town's future. "We don't want to see change in Nauvoo," he says, "yet there's no way you can stop [it]." This, in a country where change is the secular religion, is an almost unanswerable argument. But Millard gives it the inimitable Mormon spin. "The church believes in unity and harmony, and the official position is to work...
DIED. VITTORIO GASSMAN, 77, urbane Italian actor who appeared in hundreds of plays and films including The Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) and Scent of a Woman (1974), which earned him a Best Actor award at Cannes and was later remade in English with Al Pacino; in Rome. Dubbed the "Olivier of Italy," Gassman flirted with Hollywood in the 1950s when he was briefly married to actress Shelley Winters...