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...story grew, other reporters joined in. San Francisco bureau chief David S. Jackson flew to Seattle to interview financier Paul Allen, a key investor. Reporters Tara Weingarten and Lise Hilboldt filled in details of DreamWorks' film and TV plans. And bureau chief Bonfante sounded out tough-minded observers who could subject the company's projections to a skeptical view...
...because his reputation preceded him. People warned me about the jaws of the shark. But when he walked in the room, I saw someone my mother would like. He's a haimisher guy. What he said sometimes flew over my head, but his enthusiasm was pretty kinetic." Of Paul Allen: "I hugely related to him the second I met him. And he knows how to take a vacation. I'd just taken a year off, so the first thing we began talking about when we met was boating...
...highly unusual essay asking judges across the country to study whether executing prisoners who have spent long periods on death row violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Stevens made the request in a two-page supplement to the court's unanimous rejection of Texas killer Clarence Allen Lackey's death penalty appeal. Lackey's attorney argued that executing him after 17 years on death row amounted tocruel and unusual punishment, in part because his prolonged imprisonment had eliminated the possibility that executing him would accomplish retribution or serve as a deterrent. TIME New York correspondent Adam Cohen...
...weren't depressed you'd be an idiot," one character tells another in Woody Allen's one-acter, Central Park West. The words might equally sum up either of the other two short plays, An Interview and Hotline, that opened off-Broadway last week under the collective title Death Defying Acts. All three offer humor of bile and bite...
...League: I honestly think Penn will beat Alabama in its opening round game. If Matt Maloney and Jerome Allen are on it could be a long day for the Crimson Tide...