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...second acts in American lives? Ask comeback celebs such as Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy -- and now, Marv Albert. The disgraced sportscaster, just named as a new radio voice of the New York Knicks, is back. Yesss! Allen outlasted his image as a cradle-robbing lech, and Murphy lived down his alleged encounter with a transvestite prostitute. So even though it took just 10 months, Albert's return after the infamous back-biting incident is hardly the most spectacular rehabilitation in American public life...
...accuracy in his books and the films made from them. But honestly, how much terror could readers and filmgoers have worked up at the idea of people trapped on a tropical island and chased around by a pack of large chickens? That sort of thing is more in Woody Allen's line...
...should be drinking champagne every day to celebrate these times!" asserts Allen Sinai. But he and the other members of TIME's Board of Economists add a caveat: Don't wait to pop the corks. The economy right now is as good as it gets, perhaps the best in American history, Sinai claims, with little disagreement from his colleagues. However, it will start coming down off this giddy high very soon--maybe this summer. And fears are growing that the trip down could be bumpy...
Everyone knows everyone else in Jasper. Byrd may have been invited to hitch a ride by one suspect, the truck's owner, Shawn Allen Berry, 23, with whom he shared a parole officer. (Byrd had served time for theft and forgery, Berry for burglary.) The Byrd and King families have been in Jasper for generations. A member of Byrd's extended family had worked as a babysitter for a relative of King's. And yet, if what Berry told police is accurate, his friend King was openly hostile to Byrd and, while beating him, allegedly said he was "starting...
...professors are offering classes never given before, using Summer School as a testing ground, Queen said. For instance, University Attorney Allen A. Ryan Jr. is offering Government S-1732: "War Crimes, Genocide and Justice...