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RICHIE PHILLIPS Umps say their attorney is "too confrontational"--this from guys used to being spat...
...that's not entirely true. That sound you hear in the distance is two gigantic war machines rumbling into position for a battle over the future of the Internet, a turf war that's going to make the browser rivalry look like a schoolyard spat. The name of the game is broadband, the technical term for high-speed Internet access. It's complex stuff, so much so that even the big players sometimes get confused. (When asked a convoluted broadband question at his deposition, Case did a double take. "Am I in the wrong room?" he asked, to peals...
...your local multiplex? Toms River could easily be a sequel to A Civil Action, the new movie based on the best-selling nonfiction book by the same name. Starring John Travolta as Schlichtmann, A Civil Action is a compelling tale of how the federal courts chewed up and spat out the cocky lawyer and the working-class families he represented in a suit that charged large industrial polluters with contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Mass. Expenses mounted so fast that Schlichtmann lost his Porsche and condo and filed for personal bankruptcy. The judge, in a questionable ruling, barred...
...calling as a revivalist preacher, Gantry rose to prominence on the words, "Love is the morning and the evening star." That was his sermon, which did double duty as his seduction line for women. Eventually his wandering eye brought him down; his once adoring congregation hurled eggs and spat in his face. The nonapologetic address he gave his public--"Brothers and sisters: Goodbye!"--was short and sweet...
...sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry her, was a drug addict and an alcoholic who left her for another woman weeks after their wedding, gave her herpes, beat her and spat on her and took a lover the day she brought their son home from the hospital. His parents were not exactly heavenly in-laws, blaming her for their son's excesses. Is that why they call themselves the True Parents...