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Three minutes and one generous facemask call later, Jason Hanson boomed a 42-yard game winner and I had one win under my belt, courtesy of some highly creative refereeing...
...Robert Livingston of Louisiana also has a black belt in Taekwondo and an instinct for the kill. If he's in a better position than his Republican competitors to nab the speakership, it's because Gingrich himself gave him a head start. In February the 55-year-old Livingston told colleagues that should Gingrich run for President in 2000, he wanted to take over. Four years earlier, Gingrich had handpicked Livingston--at the time the fifth-ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee--to become the panel's chairman. Livingston ultimately used this perch of patronage to knife his benefactor: wielding...
...Just from my few years of being in the army, Iwill not go to work unless I shave," Costa says."I will not go to work unless my belt buckle islined up with the buttons on my shirt...
...Last week THOR ALEX KAPPFJELL, 32, raised the mayor's ire following a Big Apple airborne binge in which he parachuted from the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. After jumping from the latter, the dreadless Norseman hailed a cab and disappeared. (No word on whether he wore his seat belt.) Giuliani referred to the flights of fancy as "irresponsible" and "jerky" and ordered N.Y.P.D. officers to arrest Kappfjell when, and if, they find him, but reportedly, the fly has already made a beeline back to Norway...
TIME strives for its share of scoops, taking news tips wherever we might find them--and working through many other sources to confirm them and add context. Most weeks I am happy with the results, although we also have some scalps on our belt (this summer's infamous Tailwind story immediately comes to mind) that I wish weren't there. But along with the scoops and the stories of the week, we have devoted substantial resources to special reports that take you behind the headlines so you can understand how our society really works...