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...battled compassion fatigue to mount a $150- per-head buffet dinner with more than 100 A-list names. Despite Leno's spending 12-hour days on the phone, performers and guests were dropping out days before the March 29 event ("You mean Sally Field's not coming? Well, then count me out"). Then, at breakfast on the Thursday before the gala, Jay told Mavis, "Guess who's going to be on the show tonight? You are." Her first ("and last," she adds) appearance gave the event the final push it needed. Lionel Richie opened. Lily Tomlin joked. Marlo Thomas introduced...
...starters, clench-jawed officials promised an increased bomb load this week. "No targets are off limits that are involved in the repression," says National Security Council spokesman David Leavy. Improved weather could by itself double the daily sortie count, and additional planes now en route to the Balkans will drive it even higher. Tacitly acknowledging their predicament, the allies--especially the U.S., which is flying more than 80% of the attack missions--are hurling more firepower at Yugoslavia. B-1 Lancers are letting go with 500-pounders and the Combined Effects Munition, a particularly macabre bomb filled with 202 tank...
DIED. JOE WILLIAMS, 80, jazz icon who sang with the Count Basie Orchestra; in Las Vegas. During his five-decade career, Williams, who in the '80s appeared on The Cosby Show as Grandpa Al, was known for perfect musical timing and the intimacy he conveyed in his blues and ballads, most famously his trademark Every Day (I Have the Blues). Among his many honors: a star next to Basie's on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (see Eulogy...
Elster pled guilty to three counts of rape, two counts of assault and battery and one count of indecent assault and battery...
...Here s a big surprise: Passing out after a night of double fisting and then jolting out of bed chipper early the next morning doesn t count as a substitute for quality shut eye. Harvard students are among the most notoriously careless when it comes to sleep habits, whether because of guzzling or cramming...