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Pitching is what brought the Yankees to their showdown with the Braves. At their best, the Yankees' somewhat aged starters--the thirtysomethings David Cone and Roger Clemens, the 27-year-old Andy Pettitte and the your-guess-is-as-good-as-his Orlando ("El Duque") Hernandez--almost match up with Atlanta's foursome of Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Kevin Millwood and Tom Glavine. The rest of the Yankee team is more balanced and more powerful than the Braves. And while Atlanta does have a snorting, 225-lb. alpha male lefthander, John Rocker, in the bullpen, the Yankees can turn...
...summer hit, The Omega Code, starring Michael York and Casper Van Dien, was made on a modest budget--$7.2 million. And like Blair, it ran a remarkable under-the-radar promotion campaign. But where Blair used the Internet, Omega employed an even more unusual grass roots: it was sold almost exclusively through--and to--the Evangelical Christian community. Crowed producer Matthew Crouch: "I feel we've identified a new consumer group that Hollywood, Wall Street and Madison Avenue don't know exists. We've primed the pump, and there will be more to come...
Cherry took over as bank president. Church, who, with her husband Hermie has a collection of two dozen Harley-Davidsons, became president of Keystone Mortgage. The trio own almost every business in town, including the hardware store, gas station and motorcycle-repair shop. The bank's $400,000 in annual taxes provide two-thirds of the town's revenue...
That plays to local resentment of federal agents, which is running high, in part because almost everybody will suffer from the bank's shutdown. The town government has already laid off a third of its workers, including the town manager, and is down to two police officers. During the town-council meeting last Thursday, Cherry, who is also mayor, doubled her fists and vowed that if anyone tried to make her resign her city post, "I'll give 'em some knuckle puddin'." She had a request for the council. Now that she has lost her job and her $4 million...
...cell phones cause brain cancer?" That's the question my editor asked me as I talked to him on my cellular phone while walking a Manhattan street last week. Looking around, I counted almost one in five people similarly engaged in conversations on their cell phones. ABC's TV newsmagazine, 20/20, it seems, had just done a special report on the issue, once again fanning concerns that cell phones can cause cancer. He wanted to know what I thought...