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...referee Stephen Walkom waived off Rob Blake's goal which would have tied the game 3-3 with 2:31 left in the third period. While the Kings' Sandy Moger had his foot in the crease, a replay showed that he was clearly pushed in by Canucks defenseman Murray Baron...
...Harvard Dropout Made Good" scenario, however, dates back much farther than Gates' premature departure and subsequnt rise to Mr. Microsoft. Newspaper baron, ever-aspiring politician and "Citizen Kane" inspiration William Randolph Hearst left the college without a degree in the spring of 1885. At his mother's behest, Hearst had enrolled reluctantly in the class of '86, moved into Matthews and suffered from the same culture shock many California transplants experience today. Not relishing his studies (which included, in his freshman year alone, Greek, Latin, Classical Lectures, German, Algebra and Chemistry), he concentrated instead on his position as "the first...
...exchange for immunity--the report time and again uses White House records and contemporaneous accounts to corroborate her stories. Lewinsky remembers being with Clinton on President's Day 1996, when he spoke to a Florida sugar grower named "something like Fanuli." Phone logs show Clinton spoke to sugar baron Alfonso Fanjul that day. Lewinsky says that during three sexual encounters, Clinton was on the phone with Congressmen; during another, he took a call from his disgraced consultant Dick Morris; in each case, phone logs bear out her account. (Lewinsky says she was performing a sex act on Clinton while...
Behind the machinations that brought back Chernomyrdin stood one nimble figure in particular--Boris Berezovsky, financial baron turned political wheeler-dealer, the most ruthless of the so-called New Russians in the art of turning money into power. Unlike the men officially running the government, he always knows what he wants and has the brashness, tenacity and clout to get it. For him. Yeltsin's weakness offered a chance to strengthen the puppet strings...
...most part, they do not trust their government, and the administration of President Boris Yeltsin is not helping. It talks reform but hasn't been able to deliver fully. It bills its economy as a free-market system when it actually is a hybrid between robber-baron capitalism and state control. And now it is snatching away the greatest accomplishments of the painful Yeltsin years: a stable ruble and low inflation. On one sticky afternoon, Yeltsin vows that he will not devalue the ruble and won't even break off his vacation to return to Moscow. Three days later...