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There may be a Republican primary contest in New York after all. A federal judge has struck down GOP rules for New York's presidential primary on the ground that they set unfair barriers to would-be candidates. (To reach the ballot, each must collect tens of thousands of signatures from registered Republicans in all 31 state districts.) Under the order by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, the Party must allow candidates on the Republican ballot if they collect 1.41 percent from each district (about 150 signatures), more in line with the Democrats' requirements. TIME's Laurence Barrett says Korman...
...Hoffman's canvases] struck me as being the most moving, unbelievable things," Ptashne says. "As I live with those pictures, they continuously amaze...
Johnnie Cochran is claiming victory in another contest with Marcia Clark, this time over who got the more lucrative book deal. Just days after Clark received a reported $4.2 million advance for her account of the Simpson trial, Cochran struck back with what is rumored to be a heftier contract for "My Journey to Justice: The Autobiography of Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr." The Simpson trial has also been a windfall for a number of other would-be authors, including Christopher Darden ($1.7 million) and Robert Shapiro ($1.5 million). The big loser? Alan Dershowitz, who'll rake in just...
...places serve good burgers," Hooters Vice President Mike McNeil told a news conference Wednesday. "The Hooters Girls, with their charm and all-American sex appeal, are what our customers come for." Under an Equal Opportunity Commission order to -- gasp -- hire men to work alongside the Hooters girls, McNeil struck back with a Washington news conference-cum-pep rally designed to protest the decision. Fighting for its corporate life as well as the right to burgers served by waitresses in extremely tight tank tops, the company has taken out full-page ads featuring a swarthy man wearing the distinctive Hooters uniforms...
What might have been a joyous homecoming two weeks ago for actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger and their three-day-old baby girl turned ugly when Baldwin confronted and struck Alan Zanger, who had staked out their Woodland Hills, California, home in a van with one-way glass. Baldwin faces a Nov. 16 hearing on assault charges...