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MARNE-LA-VALEE, France: It was a scheme even Sartre would have appreciated. Build a massive American theme park a short drive from Paris. Fill it with happy, smiling faces, quaint rides and catchy, inoffensive music and wait for the cultured, sophisticated Europeans to flock to it. It was absurd, a sure failure. Imperial America at its most foolish. Five years ago, Parisians smoking cigarettes at Les Deux Magots sniggered into their cafe au laits as Disneyland Paris opened. No way would the land that invented Existentialism, perfected ennui and made dourness hip go for the hyperactive cheeriness of Mickey...
...have discovered that my roommate is definitely worthy of living in Emerson's old haunt, I am still thinking about the burden of tradition and achievement at this grand old university and how we, the fresh-faced members of the class of 2000, will fit into the grand scheme of things...
Juan Carlos was ready to have the protease inhibitors prescribed for himself so that he could secretly pass them along to his daughter. Last year he used the same scheme to get her the AIDS drug 3TC. Eventually, he found a doctor willing to give him the drugs for his daughter but on his own legal responsibility. In effect, she is a one-girl test group. "I said, 'She has to get on a special trial. Her trial. My trial,'" says Juan Carlos...
These days Huizenga operates as chairman of a company called Republic Industries. (He sold Blockbuster to Viacom for $8.4 billion in September 1994.) And his latest scheme promises to rock the very core of the car world, which is worth $1 trillion when viewed as a series of transactions that includes new- and used-car sales, service, accessories and financing. Car businesses compose one-seventh of the economy...
...sprinkled around the U.S. by the turn of the century. What isn't widely appreciated, though, is how he hopes the used-car superstores--each planned to have 1,000 or more cars in stock, and each generating $100 million in annual revenue--will fit into his ultimate scheme. In Wayne's world, you never get attached to cars. You trade them every couple of years until they're scrap--and every stop along the way, he gets a piece of the action...