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Although N.O.C.I. officials are quick to express their disappointment at the low level of corporate interest, they acknowledge that given the daily shootings and car bombings, such investment carries great risks and for some companies little reward. "We're trying to sell Nike rights that have no value," says N.O.C.I. adviser Mark Clark. "Let's be realistic--these [companies] have to run a business." So for now donations (54,000 soccer balls from the U.S. State Department) and a sort of international buddy system (Ali is sparring in the U.S.; the weight lifters have trained in Romania) are picking...
...country-club membership) to paranoid (in April, Skilling got picked up by police following a drunken scuffle in which he accused fellow bar patrons of being undercover FBI agents) to surprisingly defiant. Lay launched a p.r. blitz last week, using a post-indictment press conference to express grief at his failure to save the company while angrily proclaiming his innocence. "Failure does not equate to a crime," he said. The question is whether jurors will agree...
...modify the tradition. "We deemphasize the big party," says Graciela Fonseca, who oversees Stay-in-School Quinceanera, a program at the Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho that helps kids finish school. For most participants, however, the event is about much more than the trappings. "It's an opportunity to express your maturity and be thankful," says Marlowe Veloz, a Miami teen who just celebrated her quince aboard a cruise. "Every girl should have that, whether she's Hispanic...
...demands. If he decides to keep helping, give him your support. Nothing can be done about the selfish and unfeeling way his mother has treated your family. But if it turns out she really is in need, denying a sick old lady a comfortable end is no way to express your resentment--even if she is a nasty piece of work...
...motorists' code, I'm inclined to think it was someone else, another urban-fringe myth. Besides, why would a man who could be Australia's next Prime Minister be driving? Isn't he entitled to a Commonwealth car and driver? Where was his campaign bus, the Opportunity Express...