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Every year, Armani-clad National Football League players gather in Hawaii to do savage battle with the league's similarly adorned owners over issues such as salaries, benefits and 'do-rags. And sometimes, as in 1995, according to the New York Times, to not do battle ? in fact, to look the other way ? over a number of players who failed drug tests. The reason? The league was looking for, and got, a tougher drug-abuse policy that is considered one of the most comprehensive in professional sports. For their part, a group of players, which one league official numbered...
...Blair bulletin boards, fans and foes gather around the Internet cracker barrel to swap certainties. "Seeing The Blair Witch Project is the most terrifying experience, cinematic or otherwise, that I've ever had in my life," JJ-Spaceboy posted last week. RHinkley demurred: "I snuck in and I still felt ripped off." And SRKROL got that familiar trepidation: "The bad thing about it is the fact that I live in a heavily wooded area, with a cemetery dating back to the 1750s half a block away, it's really late, and my three dogs need to go for a walk...
...There will be a lot of excitement in this race. When you have vacant spots you always get credible legitimate candidates," Koocher said. Each candidate had to gather 50 signatures from registered city voters to win a place on the ballot...
...fevered pitch for them to leap at multimillionaire Steve Forbes' offer to join his hired caravan to the city of Ames next week. That's where diehard Republicans will gather on Aug. 14 for a day of speeches and tub-thumping and then cast a vote for one of 11 candidates. The Iowa poll, when it was invented 20 years ago, was a fund-raising gimmick by the party to tap into campaign war chests by making the front runners and the foolhardy pay for the privilege of participating. But with a front-loaded primary season and George W. Bush...
That she does--desperately. The Indian government launched a program to restore the river in 1986. In Varanasi--where 60,000 people gather daily, most for a holy dip--pumps were set up to divert sewage to a new treatment plant downstream. The pumps often stop because of electricity shortages, however, and the treatment facility is ineffective...