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...wife, Brynn, who then committed suicide, in 1998. Lovitz has said that, at the time, he held Dick responsible for the tragedy, because Dick, Lovitz claims, had reintroduced Brynn to cocaine at a party months before the murder, leading Brynn to end a decade of sobriety and start a downward spiral. "I was angry and I was blaming him for what happened," Lovitz said on Dennis Miller's radio show this week. For several years, not much happened between Lovitz and Dick, Lovitz said. Then a year ago, at Ago, a West Hollywood restaurant Lovitz co-owns, Dick showed...
...happens now if a crash comes? Some investors in China, in fact, are already miffed at the government, saying that the new supply of shares coming to the mainland's markets - regional banks such as the Bank of Nanjing are next in the IPO line - are starting to put downward pressure on equity prices. As far as the authorities are concerned, a bit of a correction is probably welcome. But as tech investors in the US learned in 1999, corrections have a way of becoming something worse - and $50 billion can become a lot less than that in a hurry...
America's relationship with Russia is on a downward slide. President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to retarget Russian missiles at some of America's European allies is just the latest flash point...
...represent a long-term trend. "It will periodically spike up, like we saw with violence in May," says Bergner, who stressed that the overall level of violence in Baghdad has lowered since January. Nevertheless, he says, "that doesn't mean it's going to be a steady, downward trajectory." Progress, Bergner explains, will continue to appear uneven for some time...
...Penn and Princeton in early February, the Crimson had hopes of knocking off two of the league’s perennial powerhouses in one fell swoop.Instead, Harvard suffered its most heartbreaking defeat of the season, a double-overtime 74-68 loss to the Tigers that sent the Crimson spiraling downward into a five-game skid.The following night a tired squad lost by 14 to the Quakers, in effect ending its chances at the elusive Ivy championship.But the biggest story of the season occurred much earlier. Center Brian Cusworth entered the 2006-07 season with just one semester left of collegiate...