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Then came the fateful Miss Black America pageant in Indianapolis in July '91. That is where and when Tyson terrorized and raped a star-struck contestant named Desiree Washington. On March 26, 1992, he began serving his six-year sentence. When King was recently asked if Tyson had any money left from the millions in purses he earned, the promoter replied, "Farmers can't count on last year's crops...
...emerges is an indictment of the Pudding, but the grounds for this indictment are cleverly concealed within Ms. Rose's labyrinthine twists of rhetoric. In part, Ms. Rose seems critical of the fact that Mr. Hanks was invited in the first place. "Maybe these Harvardians should not be so star-struck," Ms. Rose high-mindedly intones, perhaps forgetting that elsewhere in her own article she refers to Mr. Hanks--with whom she has presumably interacted only through his brief press conference--as a "delightful mix of thoughtfulness and winning verve," a "mensch," and a "doll...
...there and saw the future financiers and leaders of the western world." After just one act he concluded, "I would say that most of them have great careers ahead of them as financiers and future world leaders." Maybe he has a point. Maybe these Harvardians should not be so star-struck and should concentrate on being more productive rather than attending glorified lovefests...
...nuts, that is. The din of their air horns sounded like a Swiss national-emergency call. At least half a dozen fan clubs, most of them from the vicinity of their idol's native Bologna, follow him from race to race these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what was to become...
...denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers: ``We can attract a crowd and raise astounding amounts of money for the politicians and make good copy which is precisely why we are courted and resented by both.'' She mocked the smarter-than-thou attitude of star-struck journalists. ``You can just hear them thinking, `You make money, you're famous. You have to have political opinions...