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...perennial crackdown on naughty dancing is under way. At Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md., administrators concerned about the rise in so-called freak dancing, a hip-grinding, sex-simulating step, recently increased the number of chaperones and gave them flashlights to bust dirty dancers. Several Los Angeles high schools have benched the C-walk, a hip-hop dance step popularized by rappers like Lil Bow Wow. The C stands for Crip--the Crips are a notorious L.A. gang credited with introducing the dance at least a decade ago. It has long since crossed gang lines, but school officials...
...Wants to Be a Millionaire? Wiser but poorer, Regis vows to develop a spinoff, Who Wants Bus Money? ANTONIO OLIVEIRA Portugal football coach sees team eliminated by Korea in the World Cup. National pride now rests on being No. 1 in dessert wines AL GORE Stolen Lincoln bust shows up at ex-Veep'shome. That, and Al's insistence that his family call him "Your Presidency," means he still hasn...
...that make and distribute the things we eat, drink, and wear. While information technology and hardware have become the worst performing sectors on the market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted out the boom and bust and are now reaping the benefits. But these companies didn't emerge unchanged, notes Anthony Habgood, executive chairman of Bunzl, a paper distributor and maker of cigarette filters that moved into the FTSE 100 last week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect to the use of new technology...
...show--though one that, unlike those on network TV, suggests that not only cops but their objectives as well can be flawed. When Detective James McNulty (Dominic West) pursues a drug kingpin in the Baltimore projects, he's undermined by higher-ups who want quick, low-level "buy and bust" stings to generate p.r., not the painstaking investigation required to ensnare the bosses. The series also plumbs the Byzantine world of the criminals, focusing on D'Angelo Barksdale (Larry Gilliard Jr.), a midlevel captain who wants to rise in his organization but questions its pointless violence...
...Harvard’s 24th president, dies at the age of 94. Serving during the 1950s and 1960s, his administration led the University’s first major fundraising campaign and also focused on undergraduate education. His presidency ended in controversy as a result of the 1969 bust of a University Hall takeover...