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...were waiting at the jetway. Burton was unconscious but still officially alive. He died later at the hospital. The autopsy found bruises and scratches from blunt-force trauma to his face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton died at the hands of others, federal prosecutors...
...third game was interrupted by a minor disruption. Toledo Coach Kent Miller was apparently angered by an official's call and continued to yell and scream at both his players and referees Carole Burke and Dave Carson. He was then given a rarely-issued yellow card for misconduct...
...athletic body, the perfect human body, has formed the basis of the study of art for centuries," says Rachel Kent, a curator at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. With "Sporting Life," the MCA's Olympic offering, Kent explores how sport has seeped into the contemporary consciousness: photos of gym junkies show how identity can be constructed, while a video of a university football team poses the question, "Are stadiums museums?" Nearby, in a room of trophies gathered from everyday Sydneysiders, sport becomes art and art becomes sport...
...real question is whether calling a respected member of the media corps a "major-league asshole" is going to hurt Governor Bush at the polls. After all, we should be grown-up enough to know that when Middle America today imagines a journalist, they're not picturing Clark Kent, or even Robert Redford playing Bob Woodward. The scandal- and infotainment-driven media culture of the '90s has certainly diminished the standing of journalists in the eyes of the wider American community, and chances are that Bush's gaffe might actually improve his image. But coming as the election season enters...
...have liked to have been born in Midland, but at the time he wanted to be close to his mother, "and she happened to be in New Haven, Conn." It was similar to a line his dad had used in his losing race against Ralph Yarborough 14 years before. "Kent Hance gave me a lesson on country-boy politics," Bush says. "He was a master at it, funny and belittling. I vowed never to get out-countried again...