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Later that day, in a string of events that would become known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” Nixon instructed Richardson to dismiss...
Still, religion-based rehab programs seem to inspire a loyal following. After Ken Cooper, 66, was paroled in 1987 from a life sentence for a string of armed bank robberies, he "received a new life sentence" to minister to inmates, he says, and is now a Christian volunteer at Lawtey. "For the criminal type," says Cooper, "getting him to relate to an authority higher than himself is often the only...
...knew what it meant and you tried to figure out if they knew you knew? Relive that precious moment with Scandalous, in which the spelling-impaired British hip-hop trio drops such lines as "Solid as a rock/How many ways can you hit the spot" over a lush, string-heavy track that is no less great for sounding as if it had been ripped off from Dr. Dre's studio. If the lyrics don't provide sufficient notice that subtlety is not Mis-Teeq's MO, then the blaring siren in the chorus should do the trick...
...part because of such potential rewards, these days many immigrant children no longer view following their parents' path as a jail sentence. All the second-generation members of the Rama family, whose Greenville, S.C., JHM Group owns a string of more than 40 hotels, have worked in the family business since they could fold towels. Three are pursuing degrees in architecture, business or hotel management--by choice. "I knew I wanted to make the hotel business my career. My head was always in it," says D.J. Rama, 36, a Cornell M.B.A. and vice president of operations for JHM. "Work...
...critic of the publishing industry's overcommercialization, Straus, who started the business with John Farrar in 1946, sold out to a European conglomerate in 1994 but managed to retain a high degree of editorial autonomy. Publishing houses run by conglomerates, he said, "could just as well be selling string, spaghetti or rugs...