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...defendant: former billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. The now bankrupt Saudi Arabian arms dealer stands accused of conspiring with the Marcoses to conceal their illicit spending by backdating documents to make it appear that he, not the Marcoses, had bought four Manhattan skyscrapers valued at about $400 million. Actress Bo Derek played a cameo role, visiting her friend Khashoggi in the courtroom...
...Thailand at night, rounded up all the males ages 14 to 40 and marched them back to camp. The remaining villagers grew hysterical, and leaders of a small group of Seventh Day Adventist and Baptist missionaries, who supply refugees with school books, Bibles and food, protested to General Bo Mya, president of the Karens. The next day the conscripts were returned, and the missionaries received a note of apology from the brigade commander...
Williams--who chose Dartmouth over Michiganafter recently retired Coach Bo Schembechler toldhim he wasn't good enough to play for theWolverines--mentioned sustained effort and arefusal to give up as elements that can make acritical difference...
...sure, the dollar signs are hard to miss in TV sports these days. One can see them in everything from Bo Jackson commercials for Nike footwear to the corporate logos attached to a growing number of major events (among the newest additions: the Mobil Cotton Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...
...told not to play," the unnamed doctor said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We told Hank that if he wanted to live the best, he shouldn't exercise. ((But)) Hank Gathers was going to play basketball. It didn't matter what some doctor told him." Bo Kimble, one of Gathers' teammates and best friends, disagrees. Says he: "I'm sure that if Hank knew that he wasn't supposed to play, he wouldn't have been out there...