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First Period--1, H, Howley 2 (Presz, Taucher) 8:46; 1, S, Hurlbut (Baker) 11:41;3, H, Pawloski 1 (Sweeney, Young) 15:56. Penalties--S, Mann (roughing) 3:00; H, Armstrong (tripping) 5:04; S, Ball (holding) 9:06; H, Armstrong (high sticking, rounghing) 14:53; S, Robertson (high-sticking) 14:53; S, Lammens (roughing...
...Many politicians have come to expect business contributions as their due. Thomas Mann, director of governmental studies at Washington's Brookings Institution, describes PAC contributions and soft-money donations as a "mild form of extortion." Businesses, he argues, are only responding to pressure from politicians. "Congressmen let them know that if they don't play the game -- and it takes money to play -- then someone else will," Mann says. More and more, executives who refuse to become involved in politics via the money route could find it harder to do business...
Glashow finally begins to provide a clear history in his discussion of Murray Gell-Mann's conjecture that the fundamental elements underlying all of the mysterious particles are quarks. It is not surprising that Glashow is at his best here. Quarks are the jumping board for much of his brilliant theoretical synthesis of the strong and weak nuclear forces and electromagnetism. This is his turf: it was Glashow's prediction that a fourth, "charm" quark existed, which resolved many of the difficulties of Gell-Mann's theory...
...then, could the blend of films and artifacts not find a home in the country that made them famous? After nearly three decades of community agitation, the Hollywood Museum is still only the promise of an empty lot next to Mann's Chinese Theater. The stars' footprints would have to lead east. Few guessed that they would lead to a working-class neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., just a short subway ride from Manhattan...
...Allan Mann (Jason Beghe) is a clever, hunky, athletic law student. Make that was. For Allan is hit by a truck and wakes up a quadriplegic. He is told to look on the bright side: "You'll get all the best parking spaces." But for Allan, this is a life near death. His mother (Joyce Van Patten) cloys and crushes. His girlfriend runs off with the surgeon who may have botched his operation. His nurse, a sulky sadist named Maryanne (Christine Forrest), cares more for her parakeet than for her patient. And Allan's best friend (John Pankow...