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...people were wounded, most by shrapnel that flew as far as 100 yards from the blast. Everyone else was simply stunned. "The Olympics have been going so well," said Sultan Muhammad, an Atlantan who came to watch the Games. "It's such a shame, a shame to ruin them...
...never be implemented. And maybe that's not such a bad thing. One could successfully argue that once a mandatory moment of quiet has been approved, it will be considerably easier for the religious right and their political sympathizers to obtain their aim of compulsory Christian liturgy. Politicians can ruin anything, even something as simple as 60 seconds of silence...
...companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach sprang him, an act that some of the Donald's rivals found unforgivable...
...intense focus on one activity show up in countless ways. The child actor grows up without an education; the tennis star mysteriously drops off the circuit to spend some time being a teenager; the figure skater takes part in a plot to club an opponent. Child athletes may ruin their bodies: ballerinas develop anorexia; teen football players take steroids. And doctors say they are seeing more and more young people who are not special stars exhibiting a range of emotional problems, from depression to eating disorders to suicidal tendencies. "We see many children whose lives are overscheduled, who go from...
Afrasiabi said he is convinced the faculty members at the center want to ruin him because of his criticism of them and his defense of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses...