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...Richard Wheeler wants to tell you a story about a bird--a fine but flightless bird that lived a long time ago in the North Atlantic. "A magnificent creature," he calls the great auk, "an extraordinary paddler and swimmer." Sitting on the deck of a Wareham, Mass., home adorned by portraits and a sculpture of the 2-ft.-tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great...
Behind the machinations that brought back Chernomyrdin stood one nimble figure in particular--Boris Berezovsky, financial baron turned political wheeler-dealer, the most ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he wants and has the brashness, tenacity and clout to get it. For him. Yeltsin's weakness offered a chance to strengthen the puppet strings...
...recent survey, Burns asked advertising creative directors and corporate marketing executives which athletes they would most desire to pitch their wares. Gordon trailed only basketball deity Michael Jordan and golfers Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer. "Gordon came at the perfect time," notes Charlotte, N.C., Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler, "very similar to the mid-'50s for the PGA, when TV finally figured out how to televise a match and Arnold Palmer was sitting right there. Boom, it was all they needed...
That's all the marketers need to hear. Notes Charlotte's Wheeler, who has seen all of NASCAR's 50 years: "He's got the potential of doing what athletes like Palmer and Ali, Joe Namath and Babe Ruth and DiMaggio did, and that is to transcend the sport they're in." At 200 m.p.h., that may be especially easy...
...Associates of Wheeler Street reported receiving a bomb threat at the secretarial booth. The call was from what sounded like a young male...