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There you are, Mike Tyson. You’re a fighter, you’re wearing boxing gloves, and the person across from you looks very angry. So you attack. It’s only later that you realize it’s your lovely wife, Robin Givens. You get the feeling this has happened before...and, there you are, dropping $45,000 in a settlement. What the hell just happened...
...deductions have the effect of equalizing the differences in the awards. Critics have called this Feinberg's "Robin Hood strategy." For many people in the room, the number is now at or close to zero. Feinberg says he will make sure no one gets zero. "Leave it to me," he says. But nowhere will that be written into the rules when they are finalized in mid-February. Likewise, many fiances and gay partners will be at the mercy of Feinberg's discretion in seeking awards. Before finding out exactly what they will get--and the rules are complex--families will...
...mother Amy, formerly an accountant, was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was also, says her father John, an attorney, the year that his daughter "took ownership of her own skating." Hughes became extremely protective of her mother and began to steer her own skating progress, working with coach Robin Wagner to ensure that she did not stagnate at the junior level. During Hughes' rise from fourth to third to second at her first three senior national championships, her mother dubbed her Dr. Sarah; watching her daughter skate eased Amy's mind and body from the rigors of cancer therapies...
...Olympic tournament format has a new look this year. The field has been expanded from six teams to eight. The preliminary round splits the competitors into two four-team round-robin pools, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the semifinals...
...advance. “Pudding members pleaded for help from the Lampoon, and staffer Glenn McDonald ’89 immediately went to work,” the Lampy editor writes in an e-mail. “Just 24 hours later, he lined up former Lampoon guest Robin Williams.” Since then, he explains, the Lampoon has done much of the significant guest-relations work for Man and Woman of the Year. Last year, he says, Drew Barrymore’s selection was finalized when a Lampoon member called a Lampoon graduate, who sealed the deal with...