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...youngest heavyweight champion. The melancholy scene recalled King Kong crusted with what the promoter called "baubles, rubies and fabulous other doodads." Beholding the dull eyes and meek surprise under [Tyson's] lopsided crown and chinchilla cloak, King said he was reminded "of Homer's Odysseus returning to Ithaca to gather his dissembled fiefdoms." Sighs Tyson: "It's tough being the youngest anything." --TIME, June...
...before a match. "But I hope that when the novelty wears off everyone will see me just as a referee, not a female referee. That will be a measure of success." An Olympic Dry Run In Paris Take your marks. On Aug. 23, track and field's finest will gather in Paris for the biennial World Championships. For nine days, they will run, hurdle, jump, put, vault and throw for the gold, silver and bronze. Real competition, but to many athletes, it will be a very public practice session. "Everything leads to the Olympics," says Max Jones, the British team...
...after picking up a sheet of instructions, he and his friend left the bar, and made their way to the Sofas-UK showroom around the corner. At 6:30 p.m. Derrick Robinson, the manager of Sofas-UK, looked out the window of another pub and saw 200 people gathered outside his locked store. He quickly opened up. Robinson didn't know it yet, but he'd achieved the dubious distinction of being the target of London's first Inexplicable Mob. Once in the shop the mob had been instructed to "look at a sofa, view them with the reverence...
...executives there that MCI had been creatively rerouting calls to avoid paying high access fees to local carriers. In some cases, it meant the fees were dumped on other carriers, like AT&T, it was alleged. Verizon steered the whistleblower, along with additional evidence it had been able to gather, to the U.S. Attorney?s office in Manhattan. News of the investigation broke a week ago, and MCI hired a law firm to do yet another internal investigation...
When lunch ends, students and their teachers take seats in the auditorium for “community meeting,” a daily afternoon assembly during which students gather to discuss news within the program and to share their talents...