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According to Matory, dancing and music are a central part of Santeria worship. Practitioners believe that a dancer can enter a trance-like state, imbued by a spirit...
Facing off against many of its northeastern rivals, the Crimson cruised to an easy victory, piling up 1419.5 points to the University of Massachusetts's (UMass) 848, New Hampshire's (UNH) 638, Northeastern's 472.5, Central Connecticut State's (CCSU) 294 and Simmons...
...Parkinson's disease. Fox, who stars in ABC's Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...
Unfortunately for Microsoft, the patient isn't even bleeding. Bill Gates' famously evasive testimony and the parade of Microsoft's victims have hurt the company, at least in the eyes of the press. But the case's central tenet--that Microsoft illegally leveraged its operating-systems monopoly--still stands, whatever AOL does with Netscape. Even before the $4.2 billion buyout was announced, government economist Frederick Warren-Boulton was framing it as more evidence of Microsoft's strong-arming. "Netscape has been forced to the wall," he said. "That's an unfortunate outcome of what Microsoft has been doing." Touche...
Between 1836 and 1914, the U.S. lacked a central bank; Morgan stepped boldly, sometimes magnificently, into that breach. When gold reserves backing the country's legal tender dipped perilously low in 1895, he masterminded a bond issue in New York and London that replenished the gold stock--one of many acts he performed that preserved America's credit abroad and evinced a new financial maturity that won the confidence of foreign investors...