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Hoffa contends that it was only the old allegations of scandal that caused his 1996 loss to Carey by a 16,000-vote margin. So his recent stump speeches hammer on the accusation that Carey knew of a plan to launder union funds through third parties and into his campaign coffers. "Either Ron Carey is a fool or a crook or maybe just a crooked fool," sniffs Hoffa. "One thing is certain--he has set the Teamsters back 20 years...
...August, though, Manzie, with the consent of his parents, had been assisting New Jersey prosecutors in an effort to build a criminal case against Simmons for sexual abuse. Manzie kept up phone contact with Simmons so their conversations could be taped. Three weekends ago, however, the boy took a hammer to the recording device police had installed in his family's home, destroyed tapes and announced that he would no longer comply with the investigation. On Sept. 24, Manzie's parents tried unsuccessfully to have him committed. Three days later, Manzie met Eddie Werner at the older boy's front...
...Bisons proceeded to hammer Linden on every pass play, and stuffed the running game by penetrating past an outmatched Crimson offensive line...
...since the heyday of devo (or, perhaps, MC Hammer) have the worlds of nerds and rock so converged. As rockers embrace the Net with fan pages and Web-simulcast concerts, the two cultures have intermingled. Can you tell which is the band and which is the provider of bandwidth? --By Joel Stein...
...price. While a prosthesis for a similar level of amputation can cost several thousand dollars in the U.S., the Jaipur foot costs only $28 in India. Sublimely low-tech, it is made of rubber (mostly), wood and aluminum and can be assembled with local materials. In Afghanistan craftsmen hammer the foot together out of spent artillery shells. In Cambodia, where roughly 1 out of every 380 people is a war amputee, part of the foot's rubber components are scavenged from truck tires...