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...Coming here opened my mind," reads an entry in the visitors' book. "Leaving broke my heart. I am going home to redecorate my apartment." That's understandable. After a night in Helga's Folly, everywhere else looks dull in comparison. Rooms start from...
...project," he explains. "They said, 'Don't waste your time.'" And even the one-year numbers are more conservative. For example, when the WUSA debuted, top players were paid salaries of up to $93,000. Says league player representative John Langel: "I don't see that happening again." (By comparison, the 2002 maximum salary in the WNBA, a more established, healthier league, was about...
...trusted Bush more to fight terrorism by 10 percentage points, while they favored Kerry on the economy by 4. The key, Kerry aides say, is not to prove the Senator is better than Bush on defense but to prove he's capable. "Bush is always going to win the comparison," says a Kerry staff member. "He is the Commander in Chief. For us, this is not a comparison. It's a threshold issue...
...down to the magazine covers used to plaster bathroom walls. "Coming here opened my mind," reads an entry in the visitors' book. "Leaving broke my heart. I am going home to redecorate my apartment." That's understandable. After a night in Helga's Folly, everywhere else looks dull by comparison. Rooms start from...
...negotiator, lawyer Vernon Jordan, gave in--just as he had to Baker's earlier demand that the lecterns be an unimposing 50 in. tall and that they be placed fully 10 ft. apart, making it less likely that the 5-ft. 11-in. Bush will look miniaturized in comparison with the 6-ft. 4-in. Kerry. After Jordan and Baker finally came to an agreement at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, putting their heads together over a laptop to approve the official announcement, they headed...