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When the jackpot in the Virginia state lottery topped $27 million last month, many local residents gave in to the temptation of buying a few extra tickets. But most were beaten to the punch: in the days before the Feb. 15 drawing, a group of buyers spent approximately $5 million snapping up the bulk of the 7,059,052 possible combinations...
From a telephone poll of 625 American women taken on Feb. 20 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 4%. "Not sures" omitted...
Tsongas seemed to lose some momentum after his New Hampshire victory, finishing fourth in South Dakota with 10% and winning the Feb. 23 Maine caucuses with a puny margin over none other than Jerry Brown. Nonetheless, he pulled in enough cash after New Hampshire to launch a five-state advertising blitz last week. Tsongas was outspending the more affluent Clinton in Maryland, where the former Massachusetts Senator seems to have his best chance of showing he can win outside New England...
...Feb. 2, though, Diller turned 50. And the miracle mogul had to wonder, Did he have the power he deserved? Spawning Home Alone and The Simpsons loses its savor if the profits you generate go out of Fox's entertainment pocket and into the frayed purse of the newspapers owned by your boss, Rupert Murdoch. Or any company owned by anyone else. At Disney, Diller's friend and former underling Michael Eisner answers only to God and the Bass brothers. Ted Turner, Larry Tisch -- these guys own stuff. Diller just ran things. "For 30 years I've been an employee...
Peace talks or no, the Middle East is once again showing its true color: the blood red of vengeance. The escalation of violence began Feb. 14 when Arab guerrillas infiltrated an Israeli army camp and hacked three soldiers to death. Two days later in southern Lebanon, Israeli Apache helicopters fired three missiles on the motorcade of Sheik Abbas Musawi, leader of the Iranian- backed Hizballah. The long-planned strike killed not only Musawi but also his wife and six-year-old son. From there, hostilities spiraled rapidly. Hizballah launched scores of Katyusha rockets into Israel's self-declared security zone...