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After Acid Test was published, did you ever visit Ken Kesey? Mindy Weiser, LAS VEGAS...
...fair play, and the possibility of a U.S. scandal at the Athens Olympics horrified him. So he started issuing subpoenas and ended up with enough evidence to get a dozen athletes disqualified before the Games. "He didn't want American athletes dishonoring their country," recalls his former aide Ken Nahigian. He has free-market instincts, but like his political hero Teddy Roosevelt, he has taken great pleasure in regulating and otherwise harassing those he considers malefactors of great wealth...
Most teachers expect to correct their students' spelling mistakes once in a while. But Ken Smith has had enough. The senior lecturer in criminology at Bucks New University in Buckinghamshire, England, sees so many misspellings in papers submitted by first-year students that he says we'd be better off letting the perpetrators off the hook and doing away with certain spelling rules altogether...
...deference to State Department diplomats, a strategy that involves a renewed effort to capture Osama bin Laden. The shifts amount to an unmistakable effort to clean up President Bush's foreign policy legacy before he exits the stage. "This is bold strategic diplomacy," says former Reagan chief of staff Ken Duberstein, "with an eye to the history books...
...they were making telephone calls. Bell Atlantic could also provide phone service -- even video phone service -- over TCI's ubiquitous cable wires, and thereby invade the territories of other Baby Bells from coast to coast. ''What we're seeing is the total redefinition of the communications industry,'' says Ken McGee, who studies such trends for the Gartner Group consulting firm. The deal triggered a speculative frenzy on Wall Street, where every phone company suddenly seemed to be on the make and every cable operator looked sweetly enticing. The big gainers among cable stocks included Cablevision Systems, which jumped...