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...flowed by. Between 1892 and 1924, 12 million immigrants first touched U.S. soil there. Forty percent of all Americans can look back to an ancestor who passed through its doors. Abandoned more than three decades ago, Ellis Island reopens its doors this week as pure, potent symbol. After a ; seven-year, $156 million restoration, the most expensive single refurbishment in the nation's history, the main building has been transformed into a monument to the majesty and pain of the immigrant experience...
...resolve 90,000 asbestos lawsuits against dozens of U.S. companies, which represent the biggest ever product-liability issue. Last week Manville announced a plan to replenish the trust's cash supply in a stock deal that will provide as much as $520 million for settling claims over a seven-year period. But the company will not make the new money available until the end of next year. At the moment, with much of the trust's income dependent on future Manville profits, victims filing now are being told they may have to wait until 2015 to see their first payments...
...They're no good 'cause Donny flies up on a rope," said seven-year old Joe Mancuso, referring to an act during the New Kids tour that simulates flying. Mancuso, his black hair cut in a crew-cut, was disappointed because he could tell that Wahlberg wasn't really flying...
...charges, he could be jailed for 26 years. His lawyer, R. Kenneth Mundy, calls the federal sting operation that caught Barry smoking crack with Rasheeda Moore "entrapment pure and simple." It was, says Mundy, a plot devised by a Republican Federal Government frustrated by the failure of a seven-year effort to chase a flamboyant -- and virtually unbeatable -- Democrat from office. The prosecution contends that Barry was not entrapped because his long history of drug use predisposed him to smoke crack on that fateful night last January...
...directed a seven-year fundraising campaign for the Faculty Arts and Sciences (FAS) and drew international attention to Harvard as he directed its 350th anniversary gala in 1986. And he will leave the University as it gears up for the largest fund drive ever for an institution of higher education--more than $2 billion...