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...means it would end up costing them $20 million to perform four dates at home. The Stones will tour Britain eventually, just as soon as that new financial year rocks around, in June 1999, when they will be taxed on those dates alone. "I was tempted to bite the bullet," said Mick Jagger to an outraged British press, "but I'm not the only one affected...
...boyishness for a player who was supposed to be old and tired and about to face a team that was rested and that held the home-court advantage. Some thought it came from the fact that he knew the Bulls and he had just barely dodged a bullet against the Pacers, that by the third game, as Larry Bird began to make adjustments, the matchups, particularly in the second half of the games, had begun to favor the younger, deeper Pacers. In particular, Bird was throwing younger, bigger guards at Jordan, most notably Jalen Rose, and they were arriving well...
...Jordan's will to excel helped energize his body, and he summoned just enough strength to continue to drive to the basket, get to the foul line, or draw a crowd and pass off to teammates for open shots. That allowed him and his teammates to escape the Pacer bullet. He was still the invincible man. Now at age 35, when it should have been time for younger players from other teams to supplant him and his teammates as champions, he was once again going to the finals...
...typical kid-in-a-cop-car, I ask him about his gun. It is a double-action 9 millimeter, which can fire 13 rounds per clip. Officers carry three clips, which means 39 rounds, in addition to one bullet already in the chamber...
...power -- and his early unpopularity with students and opposition leaders -- could give the IMF crucial leverage when it comes to prodding him into difficult decisions. "For now the IMF will wait a while," says Branegan, "and hope that with Suharto gone, Indonesians will be more willing to bite the bullet next time around...