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Frankly, if they're making a million overnight, how much sympathy can the rest of us have? One man, however, is working overtime on our behalf for the time off we're being cheated out of. Joe Robinson, 49, of Santa Monica, Calif., an adventure-travel magazine editor, has been on talk shows nationwide pitching a law that would guarantee three weeks of vacation to anyone who works at a job for a year and four weeks after three years. On his website Escapemag.com Robinson rants, "We're the most vacation-starved country in the industrialized world." A self-serving...
...position to win the Stanley Cup. The Devils are a big, mobile team, yet so unsure of themselves that despite being in first place in the Eastern Conference, they fired their head coach with eight games left in the season. The job went to assistant coach Larry Robinson, who had been canned last year by the lame Los Angeles Kings...
...Unfortunately for the Crimson, the Bears had other plans. They beat Harvard, 6-2, and the Crimson ended up placing seventh. The team loses captain Robinson Jacobs and seniors Dror Bar-Ziv and Terry Dougherty this summer, but a young, talented and more experienced team should return to continue Harvard's recent poolbound renaissance...
Musical groups made up of refugees from other bands are often far less than the sum of their parts. The recently formed neo-soul trio Lucy Pearl is a welcome exception. Composed of guitarist Raphael Saadiq (from Tony Toni Tone), singer Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and deejay Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest), the group works well together. This is soul that strives to be smart but that never forgets to be sweet. The best track is the lovely Everyday; it's a song as tasty and warm as something pulled from a mother's oven on a Sunday...
...Elian's relatives for parading the poor child around in a media circus; Attorney General Janet Reno for ordering armed commandos to drag the frightened child out into the early-morning darkness. With all the resources available to our government, I cannot believe there were no other solutions. HOLLY ROBINSON Norwalk, Conn...