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...intends to keep itself the leader in broadcast sports. They are taking a chance, however, because NBC is acquiring the rights before anyone even knows which cities will hold the games. If the games are held at a location with a 12-hour time zone difference, it could spell low ratings." Earlier this year, NBC signed a $1.27 billion deal which gave the network the broadcast rights to the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia and the 2002 Winter Games at Salt Lake City...
...trying to sell a child's tricycle outside their building. Another neighbor, Eric Latorre, recalls seeing the whole family out at 2 a.m. as Awilda sought crack. Awilda had reportedly come to believe that Elisa, whom she called a mongoloid and filthy little whore, had been put under a spell by her father--a spell that had to be beaten out of the child. Neighbors, some of whom say they called the authorities, later told the press of muffled moaning and Elisa's voice pleading, "Mommy, Mommy, please stop! No more! No more! I'm sorry!" Law-enforcement authorities have...
...nice. When you've got a headache this big, you know exactly what's written all over it: directions on how to pop a pill and say good-bye to the pain. When your stomach hurts, you expect to find relief faster than the time it takes to spell it. A child-proof cap is usually all that stands between us and physical well-being...
...extremely frustrated former-president and newly instated University overseer John Quincy Adams wrote that as "an affectionate child of our Alma Mater" he could not countenance "her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Indeed, after receiving the degree, which was presented in Latin, Jackson was said to have responded. "Ex post facto; c pluribus unum; sic scmper tyrannis; quid...
...products. "Wigand, the former head of Brown and Williamson's research unit, is apparently a top-notch scientist," says TIME's Michael Riley. "But more importantly, he's now the industry's highest-ranking defector. He knows the inside story, and he's going to tell it. That could spell real trouble for the tobacco industry, whose hard-nosed tactics with Congress and the press and in the courts have so far helped protect...