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...still fighting. By last Friday, a week after the attack, Lenard had yet to regain full consciousness. While a parade of politicians and community leaders filed past his hospital bed to pay their respects, the rest of the city wrestled with feelings of profound disgust, anger and shame evoked by a crime with unusual symbolic weight. The suspects in the attack, Michael Kwidzinski, 19, Victor Jasas, 17, and Frank Caruso, 18, live in Bridgeport, a neighborhood near Chicago's old stockyards that has given the city five of its last eight mayors, including Richard M. Daley, who grew...
...allow inter-league play cheapens the World Series. The idea that a game between the White Sox and the Cubs could decide anything less than a game World Championship seems obscene. The mystical boundaries between leagues are now gone, perhaps to be revived on that day when the owners regain their senses...
...based in Parsippany, New Jersey, also wants to regain the fast track on Wall Street that it occupied until late last year. HFS zoomed from $4 a share at the time it went public in 1992 to a high of $79.87 last October. No one was happier than Silverman, whose personal holdings topped $600 million in value. Since then the stock has faltered on fears that HFS has gotten too big and unwieldy; but the price has rebounded in recent weeks and closed last Friday at $69 a share. "HFS moves so quickly, and makes so many acquisitions, that...
Harvard led by as many as seven in the early-going before the Quakers caught up on a Matt Langel three-pointer to put Penn up 19-17 at the 7:27 mark in the first half, a lead Harvard would not regain until overtime...
...after a decade, Glaser quit, a millionaire yearning for his activist past. "I wanted to put up my periscope and regain some perspective on the world," he says. You see, if Gates was Glaser's business role model, Cesar Chavez was his muse. A grape boycotter from way back, Glaser wrote a college-newspaper column called "What's Left" and has always been passionate about bottom-up grass-roots movements. Money, as far as Glaser is concerned, can be damned. "I'm not interested in the purely economic end of this anymore than Pavarotti is interested in getting paid...