The Bubba Stories
Date: 30 November 1997
By Julia Reed
Julia Reed
Julia Reed reviews book News of the Spirit by Lee Smith (M)
Il 29 novembre 1997 era una sabato sotto il segno zodiacale del ♐. Era il 332 ° giorno dell'anno. Il presidente degli Stati Uniti era William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Se sei nato in questo giorno, hai 28 anni. Il tuo ultimo compleanno era il sabato 29 novembre 2025, 200 giorni fa. Il tuo prossimo compleanno è il domenica 29 novembre 2026, in 164 giorni. Hai vissuto per 10.427 giorni, o circa 250.263 ore, o circa 15.015.837 minuti, o circa 900.950.220 secondi.
Date: 30 November 1997
By Julia Reed
Julia Reed
Julia Reed reviews book News of the Spirit by Lee Smith (M)
Date: 29 November 1997
Editorial says debate by invective is back in Britain; says Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer, who lashed out at tabloid press during eulogy for his sister, is himself engaged in messy divorce in which his wife and former mistress have teamed up to paint him as ultimate cad; says noted writers Salmon Rushdie and John le Carre are also slinging accusations and insults at each other (M)
Date: 30 November 1997
By Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin
Alfred Kazin Bookend column on late journalist Murray Kempton; calls him a public radical who was 'the most acute and cultivated columnist since Mencken'; article adapted from address given to American Academy of Arts and Letters; drawing (M)
Date: 30 November 1997
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Story of Russia's top economic reformer, Anatoly B Chubais, and his questionable $90,000 book contract, is sobering reminder of how far Russia still remains from Western standards of open government; Chubais was disgraced by ethical misstep of his own making, but he was tripped up not by free press and fair hearing, but by bankers and tycoons who support free-market reform only as long as they remain free to control market; Russian journalists, whose newspapers are mostly owned by bankers, have dropped all pretense of fairness and balanced coverage; photo (M)
Date: 30 November 1997
By Ruth La Ferla
Ruth La Ferla
In the Gallery interview with fashion designer Isaac Mizrachi at International Photography Center, which is showing works of Weegee, New York news photographer of 1930's and 1940's; photo; Mizrachi discusses Weegee-inspired fall collection, and his own impulsive explorations of New York (M)
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Conmed Corp shares rise 19 percent on Nov 28, after company says that it will buy Linvatec Corp, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co's surgery equipment unit, for $370 million (S)
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Submicron Systems Corp agrees to sell its Imtec Acculine Inc unit to group of senior managers for undisclosed amount (S)
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Entremed Inc shares rise 28 percent after it reports that experimental drug, Endostatin, drastically shrank mouse tumors in study (S)
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Duane Reade Inc files for $92 million initial public offering as part of plan to reduce debt (S)
Date: 29 November 1997
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Spanish stock market authorities fine Credit Suisse Financial Products 285 million pesetas ($1.9 million) for manipulating share prices that affected IBEX stock index in Spain (S)