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Wigand's formerly low profile was blown sky-high in November, during a controversy over CBS' 60 Minutes' cutting back a segment on cigarettes because of fear of legal retaliation. Wigand was revealed to be CBS' Deep Throat, and B&W immediately slapped him with a lawsuit charging theft, fraud and breach of contract, stemming from a confidentiality agreement he had signed when he left B&W in 1993. Wigand nevertheless gave his Mississippi deposition. After somebody leaked a copy of his testimony to the Wall Street Journal, which published key excerpts and lofted the entire document onto the World...
This is the stage at which most people discover they are HIV-positive, thanks to an antibody test developed in 1984. Raul, 25, of East Los Angeles, learned he had the AIDS virus two months ago, after a sore throat sent him to a doctor. Like so many others who discover that they are HIV-positive at the earliest stages, Raul found it hard to believe he could have a life-threatening disease and still feel so healthy. "I've thought about it, but I just can't picture it happening to me," he says. "I think I'll probably...
...tried to lowball his own candidate's prospects while inflating his opponent's. The high chutzpah mark was reached in 1972 when George McGovern's 37% showing in New Hampshire was taken as a victory because a key aide to Ed Muskie had stupidly said she'd cut her throat if Muskie didn't get half the vote--a bar he missed by three points...
Four days after a witness said he saw nine-year-old Amber Hagerman being seized screaming from her bicycle by a stranger in a black pickup truck, a man walking his dog found the child's nude, lifeless body floating in a nearby creek, her throat cut. Police in Arlington, Texas, are investigating all leads...
...school sent 14 students complaining of nausea, light-headedness and throat irritation to Cambridge City Hospital and Mt. Auburn Hospital for evaluation and canceled class, according to Jim Ball, director of public information for Cambridge schools...