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...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
...gave birth May 1, two days after her husband Jay, a captain, was killed at a checkpoint. Labor was induced so that she and the baby boy could attend the funeral. But Harting, of Fort Irwin, Calif., knows that the real work of eulogizing Jay to their three children has yet to begin: she wants their father's death to be a lesson that sometimes the toughest fights are the most important ones. That's why Harting smarts at Sheehan's brand of grief-fueled activism. "I sympathize with her pain. But I think Cindy Sheehan doesn...
...composite of studies [of the homeless] indicates that 35% have schizophrenia and 10% significant clinical depression," writes Dr. Irwin Perr of the Rutgers Medical School in New Jersey. And "some 25% to 50% have alcohol-and drug-abuse problems." Which means that, to be conservative, a majority of the homeless dwell near either psychosis or stupor...
...first movie kiss was recorded in a brief 1896 production called The May Irwin-John C. Rice Kiss, or simply The Kiss. Irwin and Rice, looking overstuffed and upholstered, he sporting a grand mustache, fastened onto one another for long seconds as the reel flickered on. Their kiss suggested not so much the heat of passion as a mishap involving dry ice or Krazy Glue. Still, The Kiss passed for erotica. It created a sensation and called down the eloquent wrath of a Chicago publisher named Herbert S. Stone, who wrote, "The spectacle of their prolonged pasturing on each other...
...sniff around. Another attraction for raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit. Icahn, on the other hand, continued to buy. Last week he announced that his holdings had reached 11.4% of USX and were still climbing. Said Icahn: "We have made a serious...