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Date: 26 December 1994
By William Glaberson
William Glaberson
James Warren arrived as the Washington bureau chief of The Chicago Tribune just a year ago. But Mr. Warren, who is 41, is already getting quite a name for himself. For example, "I don't call that serious journalism" was the evaluation of Mr. Warren's weekly column by the columnist Robert Novak, one of dozens of prominent journalists regularly skewered by Mr. Warren in The Tribune.
Date: 26 December 1994
By Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner
Martin Luther said once that if he were God he would kick the world to pieces, and who doesn't know what he meant. Only, these days we're so good at kicking the world to pieces ourselves that we hardly need God for the job. It's not so much the terrible things that are decimating us -- Bosnia, Haiti, Angola, AIDS, homelessness, crime and the rest of it -- because, as Thornton Wilder pointed out long ago, we always manage somehow to survive the terrible things by the skin of our teeth. It is rather our obsession with the terrible things. News has come to mean almost exclusively bad news, and the badness of it has got into our blood.
Date: 27 December 1994
By Reginald K. Brack Jr
Reginald Brack
Politics has always been a contact sport in America. Even Abraham Lincoln said that just to read the attacks on him, he would have to shut his office. Still, in the 1994 campaign, negative messages, groundless attacks on character, outright lying and distorted images dragged political advertising to a new low. The cutthroat ads followed a disturbing formula. In clipped, agitated tones, attack your opponent's character. Distort his record. Associate her with extremists or unpopular political figures. To awaken fear, work in a between-the-lines racist message; to foster suspicion, insinuate corrupt behavior. And by all means, steer clear of substantive issues.
Date: 26 December 1994
HARTFORD: A LAB FOR COMBATING GANGS Like any city where gangs have run rampant, Hartford has taken a beating in the last few years. In response, Connecticut's capital has become a virtual laboratory for methods of quelling gang violence. Its efforts include a joint Federal, state and local task force, a beefed-up gang prosecution unit and many police officers working lots of overtime. It is emphasizing after-school and recreational programs and has an institute to mediate gang disputes. In one experiment, a member of the city's largest gang, Los Solidos, makes $25,000 a year as youth coordinator for the Hartford Housing Authority. His job is to steer street toughs to after-school programs and away from drugs and the gang life. Page 1.
Date: 26 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The American Stock Exchange will introduce an options index next month for 10 highly capitalized airlines. Each member of the index has a market capitalization of at least $75 million and has a monthly trading volume of at least one million shares over the last six months, the exchange said last week.
Date: 27 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Stock prices traded slightly lower in Tokyo today. The Nikkei index of 225 issues closed down 15.39 points, or eight-hundredths of 1 percent, at 19,711.36. Yesterday, stocks were higher in Japan but were mostly lower in Latin America on a day most markets in North America, Europe and Asia were closed.
Date: 27 December 1994
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Credit Lyonnais said today that it was selling a 19 percent stake in Adidas International Holding, which controls 95 percent of Adidas A.G., the German maker of sportswear. The banking company is selling its stake to an investment group led by Robert Louis-Dreyfus, which bought control of Adidas in February 1993 for $370 million. The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal, but analysts valued the stake as high as 900 million French francs, or $165 million.
Date: 27 December 1994
International A2-7 MIXED SIGNALS IN MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin of Russia said he was prepared to initiate peace talks with secessionists, but an aide spoke of intensifying the assault and others had mixed reports of the conflict. A1
Date: 26 December 1994
International 3-11 RUSSIA CONTINUES ITS ATTACK Russia continued to attack in a secessionist region, claiming that 1,000 opponents had been killed, a figure that was disputed. A major meeting was planned for Monday to discuss a new peace initiative. 1 SOVEREIGNTY AT ISSUE The battle in Russia has focused attention in the United Nations on how inviolate national sovereignty should be and whether self-determination should be limited. 10
Date: 27 December 1994
By Andrea Adelson
Andrea Adelson
THE stock of the Best Buy Company, a fast-growing consumer electronics retailer, has already fallen more than 25 percent this month after the company disclosed earnings and sales would be less than Wall Street expectations. And there's a broad view that more bad news is on the way for the company's investors. Even at its current $29.875 a share, investors are paying 20 times estimated fiscal 1995 earnings for Best Buy. The price-earnings ratio is 12.9 at Circuit City Stores Inc.; 12.5 at the Tandy Corporation, which owns Radio Shack and Incredible Universe stores, and 11 at the Good Guys Inc.