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...victory represented the ultimate dream for the team's seniors, who had fallen to Princeton in the EISL Championship for the past three years...
Miami has indeed proved to be a trial for Booth. Actually, two trials: the sensational rape proceeding against William Kennedy Smith, which produced TIME's "Date Rape" cover story, and the drug case starring fallen Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. She is thinking of more than climate when she boasts, "Miami is the hottest assignment around." Outside the courtrooms, Booth reported a cover story on Orlando and finagled 1992's great correspondent coup, a Business lead story on the booming cruise industry. Naturally, duty required Cathy to sample a Bahamas cruise. The bureau also covers the Caribbean, and she has reported...
Today his task is to deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade. Before entering the scruffy cemetery on the edge of the township, Mcerwa takes off his T shirt, emblazoned with a picture of a guerrilla fighter triumphantly holding up an AK-47 rifle, and pulls on a dashiki, a loose-fitting African tunic. "Power!" he shouts to the 100 assembled mourners. "One Azania! One nation!" As a hot morning sun beats down, he angrily accuses a white-owned chemical company of murdering his comrade by exposing him to dangerous toxins on the job. "They think black life...
Poor Michael Milken. He's already paid $600 million in penalties and is 12 months into a 10-year prison sentence -- and he still has to worry about hundreds of lawsuits filed by investors claiming they were bilked by his schemes. To settle those charges, the fallen junk-bond king has now agreed to pay $500 million more in a deal that requires the approval of U.S. Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. Plaintiffs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which alleges Milken helped undermine the savings and loan industry by persuading S&L chairmen to load up on junk bonds...
Ventura cuts off the discussion inmid-sentence. Down below, the crowd explodes.There has already been one near-brawl, and theBlazers have fallen behind and pulled theirstarting goaltender. But now they have a bigchance...