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...Snow Place Like Home” stars a hotel owner, Bill Igerant, who decides to hold a beauty pageant at his Catskills ski resort—where tabloid reporter Diane Comebacktolife is promptly murdered...
...airports as it is - but with the global economy staring down the tarmac at a U.S.-led synchronized recession, the clock is ticking. As long as half as many fights are taking off with half as many passengers, nobody is making money - not airlines, not hotels, not casinos, not ski lodges or golf resorts. And how long can the American Way get by on pizza and a movie...
During his 21 years as men's basketball coach at Duke University, Krzyzewski (pronounced Sha-sheff-ski, or Coach K to his acolytes) has not lost very often. He's 533-164, with three national championships, six Atlantic Coast Conference championships, and nine Final Four appearances. No college hoops coach has won more in the past two decades, and Krzyzewski has accomplished all this with a program that turns out real-deal scholar athletes--kids who go to class, graduate and don't mind telling everyone about it. "He has put together what the rest of us are trying...
...Airlines sold off, along with aerospace manufacturers and anything to do with traveling and play - casinos, hotels, ski-resort owners, golf-club makers. Insurance companies sold off. Entertainment stocks sold off, as if the national mood would keep people away from the movies (that one may be temporary). And defense stocks and gold-mining companies had a pretty good day. Basically, it all made sense, and it could have been a lot worse, and in this uncharted territory it was an outcome that had a lot of people breathing big sighs of relief...
...released from prison in 1987 and, seven years later, won a seat in Parliament in South Africa's first all-race elections. DIED. DIANA GOLDEN BROSNIHAN, 38, avid skier who lost a leg to cancer at age 12 but persevered and won a gold medal in disabled skiing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics; of cancer, in Providence, Rhode Island. Brosnihan persuaded the U.S. Ski Association to allow disabled skiers to compete against able-bodied skiers, and in 1997 she was inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation International Hall of Fame. DIED. MICHAEL DERTOUZOS, 64, inventor, author and computer visionary...