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...DIED. WILLIE ("POPS") STARGELL, 61, baseball Hall of Famer and seven-time All-Star; in Wilmington, North Carolina. Stargell spent 21 seasons hitting cloud-scraping home runs and winning two World Series championships for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Former manager Chuck Tanner reflected, "When you had Willie Stargell on your team, it was like having a diamond ring on your finger...
...mail looked harmless enough. Be at the Renaissance Austin Hotel, 20 minutes from the office, in about an hour. Just another stupid meeting, no doubt. But by the time Dell IT specialist Chuck Peterson walked into a room filled with 75 of his co-workers and a few managers he had never seen before, he knew what was up. "None of them would look at us," he says. "They had their backs to us, or they were looking at their feet...
...Monday McCain was killed by a friend, on Tuesday it was his turn to kill one. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, fellow war hero, was one of the only Senators at McCain's side during his ill-fated presidential bid. Yet now he was the one standing in McCain's way. Hagel was sponsor of an alternative bill that instead of banning soft money would limit it: his measure would allow couples to donate $540,000 in each two-year election cycle to candidates and parties, not much of a brake on the current system. McCain and Feingold knew that Hagel...
...straight away? Naturally, it must be the doing of some bad guys, be they evil corporations or immigrants or the Trilateral Commission. If only the special interests got out of the way, McCain could get together with his pals Teddy and Patty and Chuck to pass a patient’s bill of rights, rebuild the military and part the Red Sea, all before breakfast...
...Parading before the committee to take the side of Napster and its ilk were former Eagle Don Henley and former Public Enemy Chuck D, who spoke to Napster fans before the hearing at a rally Monday evening. And in Washington to kowtow to the music establishment was Ted Nugent, a congressional-hearings favorite (though more for his bow-hunting prowess than "Cat Scratch Fever") and EMI executive Ken Berry...