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...fleet-footed junior scored two touchdowns, racked up over 100 yards and returned a kickoff for a touchdown (which was nullified by penalty) in his first significant action...
...Apple, a position the co-founder said he would never return to (Netly News) ... A Texas law professor is under fire for claiming minority students lack the ability to compete with whites (TIME Daily) ... A Marine fighter jet crashes off North Carolina (Reuters), as the U.S. grounds its fleet of stealth fighters after an air-show crash at the weekend (Reuters) ... August's Consumer Price Index was moderately good news on inflation, but analysts fear an interest rate hike may be ahead (Money Daily) ... NetChannel and Microsoft's WebTV Plus are gearing up for the battle of the browsers...
...persona, all bluster, defiance and eccentricity, has done little to burnish his image. He is reportedly obsessive about personal security, employing a large number of bodyguards. He is litigious, and his dismissal of scores of Harrods' employees also invited litigation against him. And despite the riches he flaunts--a fleet of 64 Rolls-Royces, properties on London's Park Lane, a $32 million yacht--his record as an entrepreneur is very mixed. Last year the board of the weekly Observer rebuffed al Fayed's attempts to buy the paper, saying it was not for sale. In 1995 Rupert Murdoch shut...
...Hollywood producer. The films he helped finance included the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire, The World According to Garp and Hook. But for all his notoriety in the movie business, Dodi was unable to alter the fact that he would always be best known, in the lingo of Fleet Street, as "the playboy" from "the House of Harrods." His only marriage, to former model Suzanne Gregard, ended after eight months in 1987. In the past decade he had been linked romantically, if usually briefly, to a lengthy list of beautiful and often famous women. A recent flame, model Kelly Fisher...
...showed up did additional damage, then demanded cash bribes--$400 in one case--to fix it. Meanwhile, the Singletons' signatures had mysteriously multiplied on mortgage contracts, and the $19,000 became $53,000. The finance company then sold the mortgage to Hempstead Bank. It is now held by Fleet Bank, which contends it has no responsibility for any fraud that was committed before it purchased the contract. The house looks as if it took a direct hit from a bomb, Tony has disappeared, and his company is out of business. Warren Singleton has been disabled by two strokes...