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Added to the trophy case was an All-New England pick for the fourth year in a row; the Gridiron Club of Boston’s Bulgar Lowe Award, given to the top defensive player in New England; a second team D I-AA All-America nod; and a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the top defensive player in D I-AA football...
...Owens line of shoes and bags. Celine is honoring the Games with a small collection of sportswear, including belts with good-luck charms and hooded jackets adorned with laurel wreaths. Sigerson Morrison's gladiator boots, left, aren't ideal for a relay, but they're a chic nod to ancient Greece. And for those who missed out in '02, Roots' beret is back...
Some fast-food enterprises, including McDonald's, have cut portion sizes in a nod to obesity concerns. Frito-Lay and others have reduced the trans fats that have been linked to heart disease. Coca-Cola is promoting exercise. But no company on the belt-busting end of the food business has taken the fat fight more seriously than Beall's Ruby Tuesday. In his latest assault, Beall in April became the first chain restaurateur to print nutrition facts on the menu plainly, and perhaps painfully, between an item's description and its price. Classic, slow-cooked "hang off the plate...
...cliff with a slippery rope." But he could be getting a leg up from various third parties. The idea is to have it both ways: collect their endorsements--and their access to a line on various state ballots--but maintain his "independent" aura. Two weeks ago, he won the nod of the Reform Party, Perot's old outfit, which would automatically put him on the ballot in seven states, including battlegrounds Florida and Michigan, if he chooses. And although Nader says he doesn't want the Green Party's formal nomination again, he could get its endorsement at next month...
Moore should be used to prizes by now. His 2002 Bowling for Columbine earned $58 million worldwide and an Oscar nod that Moore turned into a decisive media event when, in his acceptance speech, he scolded the President for invading Iraq. So Cannes was primed for his latest movie Molotov cocktail. Its first screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got total team news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction as Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, paced...