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...strongly disagree with those who would argue that some sort of Faustian bargain has been struck whereby public figures are fair game, any time, any place," Michael J. Fox said at a congressional hearing Thursday. It's hard to sympathize with the singleminded paparazzi who, Fox testified, "chased me on foot and in my car, yelled obscene comments at my entire family, and literally staked out my home." But opponents say villains could use the restrictions to keep their crimes from photojournalists' cameras. Peace of mind for Hollywood celebrities or an unfettered press -- take your pick...
...hate buying new stuff that I have to bring from home," says Cassim C. Shepard '01, "And I'm always open to a bargain...
Unless you have gone through the experience yourself, or watched a loved one's struggle, you really have no idea just how desperate cancer can make you. You pray, you rage, you bargain with God, but most of all you clutch at any hope, no matter how remote, of a second chance at life...
...prison phone would be recorded, but that doesn't mean he knew they would be made public. If he had, he would have presumably studded his conversations with rude jokes about Kenneth Starr and how simple it had been to hoodwink the independent counsel's office on a plea-bargain agreement. He certainly didn't know they would be made public as edited by Burton's chief investigator, David N. Bossie, who presumably picked up his notion of fair play partly from his old colleague Floyd Brown, the creator of the Willie Horton campaign commercial...
...make money at bargain prices, Carnival counts heavily on economies of scale. For a one-week Caribbean cruise, Carnival's Elation stocks some 10,000 lbs. of meat along with 10,080 bananas, 41,660 eggs and more than 4,000 quarts of booze. By squeezing such costs, Arison says, Carnival can break even with its ships filled to around 60% of capacity. Yet with vessels like Destiny often packed to the gunwales, Carnival has been able to trim operating expenses to 54% of revenues. That contributes to a net profit margin of 27%, first class by any measure...