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...they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs, it can tow up to 3,500 lbs. But Dickie uses it to drive, by herself, three miles each way to and from the office. She also occasionally lugs scuba gear in it, but mostly she likes its style...
Around the same time as the principal incident, Watkins went on a hunting expedition with her father. While he went off to spot ducks, she hung back with her .243-cal. rifle in search of bigger game. Her father returned to find Watkins standing over the carcass of a deer. She set about gutting it so the family could make spicy ground-venison chili. "It stinks, it's gutty, it's nasty," she says. "My father could not take it." He stepped to the side and vomited...
...Enron's profiteering from California's power crunch (along with that of other energy traders) saddled Golden State residents with an $11.3 billion bill. Legal experts say it may take five years to prosecute the wrongdoers. The debacle's winners? All those lawyers probing and pecking at Enron's carcass...
...Diana's items, from handbags to photos to a ceremonial sword, collapsed when Queen Elizabeth recalled that shortly after Diana's death, Burrell had confided to her that he would hold some of Diana's things for safekeeping - proving he had no criminal intent. As commentators picked over the carcass of the case, Burrell was portrayed mostly as the victim of police and prosecutors, who jumped to the wrong conclusion on flimsy evidence, egged on by Diana's mother and sister - who supposedly resented that the son of a coal deliveryman had supplanted them in Diana's affections. Newspapers called...
...Hollywood movies, yet it has managed to lure only 2.4 million paying subscribers. After losing $1.4 million a day, it ended up dragging its parent company into bankruptcy, and buzzards from four continents have converged--among them Bertelsmann, Liberty Media, News Corp. and Sony--to pick at the carcass. In Italy, where stealing satellite service is pursued with the same ingenuity and gusto as is tax avoidance, two competing pay-TV services, Vivendi's Telepiu and News Corp.'s Stream, have fared so poorly that they have had little choice but to combine their 2.3 million subscribers. Two struggling Spanish...