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...business magnate and colorful owner of the Washington Redskins football team; in Washington. A high school dropout who began as an encyclopedia salesman, Cooke built what may be a billion-dollar fortune, freewheeling his way through media properties, sports franchises and real estate. In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match. Fans and foes relished reading about his four tabloid-tale marriages. Approached for a book on the world's five greatest salesmen, Cooke replied, "I am not one of five anything...
...lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District of Columbia in 1995 for selling an undercover agent 126.6 grams of crack for $3,400. In rejecting Edwards' argument last December, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Congress was trying to purposely discriminate in setting greater penalties for possession of crack. Edwards' hope of securing a less severe sentence may eventually be realized: The U.S. Sentencing Commission is pressing for legislation to equalize the sentences for both kinds of cocaine...
...said that in her application essay she discussed her work in Professor of Physics Gerald Gabrielse's lab, where she was involved in building a circuit to stabilize a laser...
...began quietly Monday some 600 miles north in Denver in the criminal trial of suspect Timothy McVeigh. In Oklahoma City, fewer than 75 survivors and relatives showed up at the 320-seat auditorium set aside by the federal government in an FAA building to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit television, though demand for seats is expected to grow keen once the trial begins. While extensive security precautions have been taken to lock down the area around the Denver courthouse where McVeigh is being held, the initial interviews of four potential jurors from a pool of 380 stirred little attention...
...nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations to spy on and help bring down kingpins of Colombia's Cali drug cartel...