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Mike Tyson has inspired many epithets: the Mighty Joe Young of boxing, Don King's twisted Trilby, America's most volcanic son-in-law. For three years he was also known as the heavyweight champion of the world. But the organizer of the Miss Black America Pageant has topped all Tyson name callers. In a $21 million lawsuit alleging sexual assault of 11 of the 23 contestants at last month's competition, J. Morris Anderson charged the ex-champ with being "a serial buttocks fondler...
...February of this year, at the University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic in Minneapolis, eggs taken from Christa's ovaries were fertilized with her husband Kevin Uchytil's sperm, then implanted in Arlette's uterus. Ten days later, Arlette telephoned her daughter and son-in-law, who live in Sioux City, Iowa. "Congratulations!" she triumphantly exclaimed. "You're pregnant." Not long thereafter, Christa, viewing an ultrasound picture of her mother's tummy, saw two heartbeats and realized that her mother would give birth to twins. "How lucky could I be!" Christa said. "This just takes my breath away...
...clear-eyed too. Whether they are veterans like Brady or Thompson, who at / 42 is in the bright midst of a career that started in the mid-'60s; or upstarts like Whitley, 30; or standard bearers like Himmelman, 31, who is Bob Dylan's son-in-law and has already released his fourth album, From Strength to Strength (Epic): all of them write songs with the same emphatic edge and aesthetic urgency that impelled the Lost Generation to write novels. Their songs carry similar thematic weight and have that same kind of conviction...
Saddam launched the scheme after he seized power in 1979, Kroll and other investigators say. Key figures in the family-run scam allegedly included Saddam's half brother Barzan al-Takriti, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, and Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamel, Iraq's Minister for Oil and Industry. Probers say the conspirators siphoned off 5% of the $200 billion that Iraq accumulated in oil revenues during the past decade. The group also reportedly demanded a 2.5% kickback from Japanese firms that did business in Iraq, and even skimmed off money from contracts between...
Chamorro's advisers know what is at stake. Says the President's son-in-law Antonio Lacayo: "If this plan fails, the government will have to go." The opposition Sandinista National Liberation Front's response: "They might as well start packing." The Sandinistas should know: their mishandling of the economy helped sweep Chamorro into power...