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...Juan attended by Puerto Rican officials and poultry-industry representatives, Tyson momentarily dropped the pretense that the industry group was doing the lobbying. While the Broiler Council had requested the session, records reviewed by TIME show clearly that it was a Tyson vice president, Mike Morrison, who described in detail the many rules Tyson wanted changed. The council threatened a new lawsuit if Puerto Rico didn't agree. "We didn't want that," says an associate of Puerto Rico's governor. Rossello, at the time unaffiliated with either mainland political party, was on the verge of declaring himself a Democrat...
After 21 witnesses, mind-numbing disquisitions on evidence gathering, soul- numbing descriptions of violence, the defendant wiping away tears as the coroner described in antiseptic detail the innards of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and of Ronald Goldman, and the impassioned final statements of both lawyers. Municipal Judge Kathleen Kennedy-Powell needed only 30 minutes or so to issue her ruling. Simpson would go to trial. There would be no bail. Legally, of course, he remains innocent until proved guilty. The real trial is still to come...
...than a year because they believed that the public would be impressed by seeing the prince's tireless toil in support of worthwhile projects. "People don't know what a caring, sensitive man he is," says an aide. The film shows that attractive side of the prince in great detail...
These passages come from Zhirinovsky's autobiography, The Last Thrust to the South, a book that James Billington, U.S. Librarian of Congress, calls "in some respects psychologically an even more unstable work than Mein Kampf." In it, Zhirinovsky recounts in extravagant detail the injustices of an emotionally and economically deprived childhood in Alma-Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan...
...intriguing in this epic commemoration how most veterans could recall in minute detail that first 24 hours, then found memories hazy as they went inland for fighting that would continue for a year. Ambrose's interviewees could give the exact size of the foxholes they dug, when they first relieved themselves after the long and tortuous journey to the beaches, or where they first hit ground, rolling beneath their billowing parachutes...