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Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson declared bankruptcy last week after earning an estimated $350 million in a controversial career. Even during his glory days, when TIME featured him on its cover, there were signs of trouble ahead...
...PLEADED GUILTY. MAHER (MIKE) HAWASH, 38, a West Bank-born software engineer, to a single charge of conspiring to help the Taliban, as part of a deal reached with prosecutors to secure his testimony against six other suspects; in Portland, Oregon. Hawash admitted that in October 2001 he traveled with a group to Hong Kong and Kashgar in an attempt to enter Pakistan and Afghanistan to wage war against the U.S. He is expected to be sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison...
...Record Straight Still Writing In the article on the controversy over claims that Iraq sought African uranium [July 21], we published a photo caption that incorrectly said Mike Gerson was a former chief speechwriter at the White House. Gerson still holds that position...
...than the U.S. and Britain, but when U.S. General Wesley Clark, then Supreme Commander of NATO forces, asked the British in June 1999 to stop Russian troops from taking control of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war, London bluntly refused. (The precise words of British General Mike Jackson: "Sir, I'm not starting World...
HIGH HOPES. The film, from the era of reemergent New British Cinema, was released in 1988 and directed by Bristish Independent filmmaker Mike Leigh. High Hopes follows the story of an English couple, Cyril (Philip Davis), a motorcycle messenger, and his wife Shriley (Ruth Sheen). The couple live with Cyril’s mother and become invoved in the sagas of his mother’s neighbors and his sister. Shirley yearns to be a mother, but Cyril, a Marxist, wants to live in a utopia and is reluctant to start a family. High Hopes screens Saturday, August...