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...often he seemed to rely on long, drop-back passing plays (Giardi threw the ball 37 times), rather than the multi-flex's strength: short passes off of roll-outs and option plays. The plays are easier to execute in rainy weather, and less likely to end in a sack or a forced throw...
...again having psychotic episodes. On Aug. 8, 1977, Shaw was found standing naked at his cell door at 1:37 p.m. when he was supposed to report for work. He got into fights with other inmates. In early 1978 he alarmed his fellow kitchen employees by attacking a sack of potatoes with a cutting knife. Farrow and others asked for Bobby to be transferred to a less dangerous...
...president fired a five-star general because he did not obey executive orders in a reasonable amount of time. Yes, MacArthur was involved with actual troop movements, but years for closing bases and months for integrating gays are certainly unreasonable amounts of time. Clinton doesn't have to sack the Joint Chiefs, but he shouldn't have to put up with gridlock in a branch of government he controls...
Tita (Lumi Cavazos), the heroine of Like Water for Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
...Saturday, American Express announced that its chairman and chief executive officer, James Robinson III, was resigning after a bruising battle with his board. Two months ago, the board at American Express moved to sack him after a long string of blunders and miscues. Robinson initially agreed to step down when a successor was found. Then, after a divisive battle, Robinson faced down the board and early last week held to the chairmanship, picking his chosen successor, Harvey Golub, as chief executive. Three dissident directors resigned. Robinson's triumph lasted just four days, during which Amex stock dropped 13%. Investor groups...