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...Wednesday--early morning in the U.S.--that Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz got a tip that China's ailing leader might be dead. As FlorCruz raced to the TIME bureau, driving past Tiananmen Square and the residences of the top Communist Party officials, he could tell something was amiss; police at each intersection were waving motorists to the side so that black cars with flashing red lights could enter Zhongnanhai, the party headquarters. Within hours, Deng's death had been confirmed, and deputy managing editor Jim Kelly had given the go-ahead for this week's cover package...
...want to believe this. Harvard just can't be so god-awfully mediocre, can it? But when Joel Prpic, the six-foot-seven beanstalk of a St. Lawrence forward, can score three goals against you, including one from inside the center-ice face-off circle, something is dreadfully amiss...
...first indication that something was amiss came Thursday, when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki called two jurors into chambers to question them about letters sent to them by Brenda Moran and Gina Rhodes Rossborough, two jurors in the Simpson criminal trial. The letters offered moral support and touted the services of a particular media agent. Fujisaki immediately launched an investigation into the matter, since it is illegal to attempt to contact jurors. A team of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies armed with a search warrant confiscated Moran's computer and files from her home. Moran admitted that she wrote part...
What do women want? For years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...
JOHN WALDRON, 17; KNOX, INDIANA; high school junior He knew something was amiss after a couple of missed turns on the familiar bus route to school. The driver had apparently had a seizure. Suddenly the vehicle careened off the main road. Amid the hysterical screams, Waldron calmly walked to the front of the bus, pulled the driver's foot off the accelerator and pushed the brake with his hand--bringing the bus to rest in a field and his classmates to safety. He then called for help on a CB. "I believe that it was God who put the thoughts...