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...killing, Ray performed one of criminology's most famous about-faces, protesting his innocence for the remainder of his 99-year sentence. His prison term was marked by botched jailbreaks and his steady insistence that he had only been the fall guy in a larger conspiracy to slay King, a claim that received the unlikely backing of the King family, who joined his bid for a new trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 4, 1998 | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Although these were the only official wins, theother matches were as close as they come.Tri-captain Ed Mosley lost a 5-6 heartbreaker toBrandon Slay in a sudden-death double overtime.Mosley is ranked 14th in the 167-pound weightclass while Slay is ranked second...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grapplers Take Two, Fall to Quakers | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...Harvard men's basketball team (7-4, 1-0 Ivy) slay a bigger, stronger Dartmouth team and fall a tenth of a second short of an upset, victory over Southern Methodist (SMU) in two of the four games it played over the holiday break...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Basketball Breaks Even Over Break | 1/5/1998 | See Source »

...stakes for the U.S. are particularly high in Japan and Korea. Banking collapses in either country would pull back gobs of capital from the U.S. and possibly slay the bull market. At the same time, a sharp drop in demand for U.S. exports could slow or stall the soundest peacetime expansion in recent American history. Perhaps more worrisome is the danger Rubin warned against--that Japan and Korea might slash prices of exports to the U.S. to restart their economic engines, and thereby ignite a trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUMBLING GIANTS | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...would be in direct competition with Wynn. Oh, the hypocrisy! But even Donald has been trumped. Seven of the 10 homeowners on Bryant Drive have said yes to Wynn's buyout offer, because either they liked the terms or they decided there was no way to slay a giant. It's Atlantic City, after all, where Monopoly is no game. Buy four houses and you can build a hotel. "It's a done deal," said carpenter Clarence Mobley, 46, on the porch of a Bryant Drive house he built himself. He said the offer he accepted from Wynn was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF HER FATHER | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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