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When President Clinton was considering who the new leader of the Democratic party ought to be, he no doubt had to contend with a whole slew of factions and interests within the party, each championing a candidate favorable to their interests. Perhaps surprisingly, one of the most powerful of those groups was the Cuban-American community...
Quick explanation? Harvard couldn't handle Holy Cross's aggressive full-court press in the game's closing minutes. An astounding 34 Crimson turnovers led to a slew of easy Crusader lay-ups in the second half...
...Universal films to gross at least $100 million at the domestic box office (E.T., Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Jurassic Park and The Flintstones) have come from Spielberg's Amblin. Another Spielberg film, Schindler's List, | earned $96 million and a slew of Oscars. Universal Studios Florida, the company's pricey rival to Walt Disney World, is virtually a Spielberg shrine, with major rides celebrating E.T., Back to the Future and Jaws. But without its main man, Universal is a crippled company. The rest of its movie trove is a dog named Beethoven and some...
Stocks soared Tuesday in heavy trading, powered by a slew of strong corporate earnings reports and falling bond yields. A sampler of good news: Union Corp., the nation's ninth largest banking company, reported that third-quarter profits increased 24% from a year ago; Pepsico, fueled by improved performance in its soft drink and snack foods divisions, posted an 18% hike in earnings. As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 55.51 points to 3876.83. The S&P 500 rose nearly seven points to 465.79. NASDAQ shares rose 8.76 to 765.751. Bond prices rallied on rumors that the Feds...
...effort, Andreessen's team faces stiff competition. It comes both from Mosaic look-alikes, like MCC's MacWeb and Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic, and from a slew of new programs, like Netcom's NetCruiser and James Gleick's Pipeline, that work almost as well as Mosaic but don't require an elaborate Internet connection. If Mosaic has a weakness, it is that most computer users are not prepared to go through the hoops necessary to get it up and running. To address that problem, O'Reilly & Associates, a publisher based in Sebastopol, California, has introduced a product called Internet...