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Eddie Jones—who was too sick the following day to wrestle against Columbia—did beat the replacement, recording one of the three Harvard decisions on the night with a 5-2 win over Dan Miracola...
...Stealing from Whom? Your story on digital-movie piracy, "Hollywood Robbery" [Jan. 26], left out one of the biggest reasons for the black market in bootleg copies of films. People are sick of getting ripped off at the theater and the DVD store. When we see movie stars getting millions for making one film and studio execs living like movie stars, the purchasers of bootleg DVDs say, "Who's getting ripped off? I'm the one paying a bundle when I spend $20 to see a movie and buy a bag of popcorn." Who cares if the industry loses...
...doubt. But last week members of his party were ready to challenge his judgment, signaling a change in the climate at the very moment the 2004 campaign was beginning for real. If the Democrats are right that a lot of voters are now more worried about getting sick or getting fired than about getting blown up, then the armor Bush has been wearing for 2 1/2 years may protect him less than it weighs him down. A Republican who travels the country sees the weaknesses in Bush's message: "Bush says the economy is getting better, and he's right...
...domestic partnerships were still considered radical. Only a few liberal municipalities offered them--Berkeley and West Hollywood in California, for example--and they didn't cover much. You could get a certificate suitable for framing and the assurance that a hospital within city limits would let you visit a sick partner. That was about it. FORTUNE 500 companies were only beginning to allow partners of gay and lesbian employees to buy into health insurance plans. Most big cities didn't offer their employees such arrangements; in 1993 plans to extend health benefits to same-sex partners of city employees...
...baffling experts, for the killer, known as devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), is as mysterious as it is disfiguring. Today Mooney?s team are checking their 50 traps - lengths of PVC pipe pierced with air vents and nestled in shady spots - measuring, weighing and attaching microchips to healthy and sick devils as part of a new statewide monitoring program. There?s still no diagnostic test, so the team must check the face and gums of every animal, disinfecting each trap as they empty it. But there?s no missing the disease in its advanced stages, when faces are ravaged...