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...executive vice president, says going private gave Springs the flexibility it needed to address the tough reality facing the industry. "We also recognized early on where trade laws were going--that this is going to be a quota-free world--and said, Let's get our ducks in a row...
...court has ruled out capital punishment for the mentally retarded and juveniles while overturning a few death sentences because of incompetent legal counsel or racial bias in jury selection. Later this year, the court is scheduled to hear a much anticipated case concerning whether a Tennessee man on death row for the past 19 years can win a new trial because of fresh DNA evidence that may exonerate him. "These nagging questions of innocence have been driving the death cases in the court," says Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center. "A few years ago, they would have gone...
...single number" in Japanese, is a deceptively simple game of logic that consists of a nine-by-nine-square grid, broken into three-by-three-square cells. The object: fill each square with a number from 1 to 9 so that every number appears only once in each row, column and cell. Long popular in Japan, sudoku is based on 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler's Latin Square, and first appeared in U.S. puzzle books in the 1970s under the scintillating title Number Puzzle. The Western craze didn't take off until last fall when an enterprising New Zealander used...
...since his triumphant return to the Soviet Union last April, and the President was delivering an encomium linking the worlds of music and superpower diplomacy. As Nancy Reagan listened, the leg of her chair slipped off the edge of the platform, and she pitched into a row of potted yellow chrysanthemums. "I'm all right," she hurriedly reassured everyone. "I just wanted to liven things up." She regained her seat, and Horowitz put a protective arm around her. "This is why I did that," said the First Lady, smiling at Horowitz and accepting a gallant Old World hand kiss...
...romp for Kasparov. After 16 games, he was three wins ahead and seemed so assured of victory that some visiting grand masters packed up and left for home. Suddenly Karpov, drawing on a hidden reserve of strength and taking advantage of blunders by Kasparov, won three games in a row to pull even, 9½-9½. It was an unprecedented string of victories so late in a championship match. "Kasparov is cracking," wrote Vladimir Pimonov, analyst for a Soviet chess journal. "He's fallen victim to the same problem that has plagued him in the past: overconfidence...