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Rick Aguilera came from 3-0 behind in the count to strike out the Aussie, Dave Nilsson, and win the game, 3-2. The team poured out in the usual pile up celebration, which included one fan who was unceremoniously torn away and arrested five seconds later...
...surprise decision, the Second District Court of Appeals ordered Ito to abandon his proposed instructions. Now it is unclear whether the defense will continue fighting to have Ito make some reference to Fuhrman. Still, the prosecution is scrambling. "The prosecution's case has been reduced to a pile of rubble," says former L.A. district attorney Ira Reiner. "They have nothing less to do than rebuild their entire case. If they don't, they can kiss away any chance of a hung jury-forget a conviction...
Time Warner would pay off TBS shareholders with a pile of stock valued at about $8.5 billion and, according to the deal's rough outline, make Turner a vice chairman of the combined company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...
That's pretty much the reaction provoked by a reading of Sleepers. Internal contradictions pile up. "We followed every pro sport with religious fervor and adolescent passion," Carcaterra writes on one page. On the next: "We cared little for Knicks basketball and barely tolerated Giants football." The author writes emotionally of a Greek hot-dog vendor he and his friends robbed: "We never saw the tiny, airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress...
...perfectly respectable garden can be had virtually for free. The price is paid in muscle and devotion, applied to a few packages of seeds, some cuttings from a neighbor, a pile of compost distilled from last fall's leaves. To the purists, paying someone extravagant sums to install an instant garden is like hiring someone to have great...