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Sprewell Apologizes to Carlisimo Backed by his agent, the NBA players association and his new lawyer Johnnie Cochran, Latrell Sprewell used his first public statements since choking coach P.J. Carlisimo to apologize for his actions. Then he tried to wriggle out of his league-mandated punishment: "I feel 10 years of hard work shouldn't be taken away for one mistake. My career didn't happen overnight and I don't feel it should be taken away overnight...
Reasons to Move There: Depot Plaza, where Amish shoppers park their horses and buggies, is a downtown meeting place and festival site. Nice mix of old and new: John's Butcher Shop uses 500 meat lockers to store food for the Amish, who shun electricity at home; sports agent Mark Simpson, who lives here, shows his clients the money via fax or modem...
...even for medical purposes, is still outlawed by the U.S. government, and Attorney General Janet Reno has vowed to continue enforcing that law. But federal officials have been reluctant to crack down on the pot clubs that were created in response to the will of California voters. In April agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a Bay Area cannabis club called Flower Therapy and seized 331 marijuana plants and growing equipment, charging that the club was distributing pot in quantities larger than what was needed by its ill customers. But the raid was denounced by San Francisco Mayor Willie...
...CLINTON'S dorm and told his fellow Berkeley students to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass." Go, team! The Secret Service, however, didn't find those words so inspiring and instead bum-rushed Branum's dorm while they were in town for a Hillary Clinton speaking engagement. Agent Chris Van Holt showed up on campus to check Branum's medical records and search his room--and the spunky undergrad taped the entire proceeding. "I want to make sure you don't have any weapons or any of the stuff that you see on TV...like a big picture...
According to Army Secretary Togo West, Clinton has personally granted waivers for four deceased people: a Supreme Court Justice; the wife of another Justice; an Army veteran who was killed while working as a federal drug agent in Peru; and a Marine Corps vet killed in the line of duty as a police officer. West himself granted 58 waivers, 42 of them to relatives of already buried veterans. After the Army released the names, Everett counseled caution. "I urge everyone," he said, "to avoid hasty conclusions...