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...theme parks and promotes its beer on the premises. Yip, unaccustomed to the image business, felt the weight of corporate pressure "for everything to go right." Critics of Sea World, who argue that park officials could simply release their captive killer whales if they truly cared about freeing animals, contend J.J. was little more than a cetacean Spuds MacKenzie. "The J.J. event was purely driven by corporate image needs," says Susan Davis, author of the book Spectacular Nature, a critical examination of Sea World. "People are no longer as tolerant of alcohol advertising, which means Anheuser-Busch needs another...
Halley went on to contend that racial and sexual issues are too intertwined to separate them...
WASHINGTON: As President, Bill Clinton is happy he no longer has the Paula Jones case to contend with. As a person, he's irked that her claims of harassment were never aired before a jury. In an exclusive interview with TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson, Clinton said: "If I were just a private citizen, Joe Six-pack, I would have mixed feelings about not getting a chance to disprove these allegations in court...
Many fans, meanwhile, wonder whether McGwire and Griffey will contend for Roger Maris' record of 61 home runs...
...called as a witness in the Paula Jones case. And he says the first time he recalls seeing Jones herself was on television, and that he said at the time to Lindsey, "Bruce, do we know this lady? Who is this person?" But it is the female witnesses who contend that the Enforcer worked overtime trying to compel a silence about Clinton's past sexual relationships. Lindsey was allegedly in contact with Linda Tripp, his former subordinate, after she saw Kathleen Willey emerge disheveled from an alleged Oval Office sexual encounter. Browning, meanwhile, says that in addition to working...