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...Brien understands the appeal of his story, its picaresque narrative spiked with trial and error, with mishap and misstep, with personal suffering and extraordinary triumph. He calls it his "rags-to-riches" tale, but having happily embarked on the riches phase, he politely wishes that everyone else would please just move on too. The decathlete is tired of what has become his 11th event, talking about his previous failings--the way he mysteriously flubbed the pole vault in the 1992 Olympic trials, thereby blowing his star turn in Barcelona; the way his college partying sometimes got the best...
...lead, Democrat Congressional candidates have improved their standing. If the election were held today, 48 percent of voters would support a Democrat for Congress compared to 41 percent for Republicans. In June, the margin was two points. The survey of 1,010 registered voters has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points. -- Josh Dubow
...Look--set jaw, icy stare--and is frozen out. "It usually happens only once," says Will. And heaven forbid, don't call her Liddy--that's only for those who knew her when she was in pigtails. Lesley Stahl got the Look that chills when she made that fatal error on 60 Minutes...
...deal makes it difficult and in some cases (only a few, says Coffey) impossible for FBI field agents to pass evidence against suspected mobsters to the people responsible for booting them out of the union. Leaving Coia to run the union during the cleanup was at best a bad error of judgment, given the evidence linking him and his father, who also held a top union job, to organized crime. Moreover, a number of events cast doubt on the integrity of the cleanup effort: in New York, Salvatore Lanza, identified with Cosa Nostra in the original complaint, was promoted...
From a telephone poll of 831 registered voters who voted for a Republican candidate for Congress in 1994 taken for TIME/CNN May 24-28 by Yankelovich Partners Inc. Sampling error: plus or minus 3.5% "Not sures" omitted...