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...Zina Garrison and Lori McNeil remembered Ashe as a friend and a mentor who transcended the issues of race, sports and AIDS...
...bigger than just one race and one group of people," Garrison said from Atlanta, where she was appearing at a tennis-equipment exhibition. "He was loved by us all, and I think he will be remembered as a loving and caring person...
Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she says. "I mean, if God loved us, we would know it, wouldn...
...wouldn't handle the case, but King, claiming Mitchell's firm was charging for legal services, was collecting thousands of dollars from Wolfson anyway -- and pocketing the money. King also kept a $5,000 payment that Wolfson had asked him to pass on to New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, whose investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination Wolfson partly financed. Wolfson went to prison, but, on his release, he filed a grand-larceny complaint against King, who was arrested by Miami police on Dec. 20, 1971. The charge was dropped three months later because the statute of limitations...
Yeltsin feels caught in the middle. In recent months he has tried to encourage Tokyo by promising to withdraw most of the islands' 7,000-strong Russian garrison. His government has also floated a compromise in which Japan would get some of the islands, while Russia would keep the larger two of Kunashir and Iturup, where most Russians live. Tokyo has rejected the idea, and Yeltsin, fearful of risking the wrath of his Moscow rivals, has been unable to sweeten the deal further. Last week he canceled a trip to Tokyo rather than confront the issue...