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UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian announced that Daniels would never play for the school. Perry was outraged. "He said if we had treated Daniels right, we would have got a number of New York guys," recalls Tarkanian, who claims to know Perry only as Sam and believes he is in the "commodities" business. Daniels, who left UNLV, has since been in at least two drug-rehabilitation programs. He played for a time in the C.B.A., and is now back in New York City...
Telescam groups in several states employ a "grand prize" hook to sell useless water purifiers. Supposed prizewinners, who are advised by mail to call an 800 number for information, are told they will collect such awards as a diamond watch, mink coat and luxury car if they buy a $398 system that removes pollutants from drinking water. Consumers who buy the product receive a worthless contraption containing two small charcoal tablets. Worse, the prize never shows...
Boiler-room operators in Nevada and California begin the day as early as 5 a.m., calling people on the East Coast. Then they work their way westward, taking advantage of the changing time zones to make the maximum number of calls. Consumers who call back with questions are invariably told that the salesman is in a meeting. Once stung, many victims are deluged with other offers. Reason: boiler rooms sell sucker lists to one another...
Imagining baseball without Rose is hard, but imagining Rose without baseball is horrible. On plane rides home from the World Series, he used to calculate the number of days to spring training. He marks time by the inning, even in references to his birth in 1941, usually adding, "the year of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak." During Rose's own hitting streak in 1978 -- the National League standard of 44 -- he was caught in a paternity suit, and his marriage was dissolving. Only between the white lines of the field was he serene. Last week, before...
When tanks and MiG aircraft zeroed in on their positions, the rebels fell back, taking an alarming number of casualties along the way. Reviewing the failed encounter, a frustrated Rahim Wardak, the battlefront commander of the National Islamic Front for Afghanistan, concluded that the battle that began more than three weeks ago "is turning into a stalemate...