Word: toronto
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...record set by Lou Gehrig, the first baseman for the New York Yankees from 1925 until 1939. The "Streak," as it has come to be called, officially began on May 30, 1982, when Orioles manager Earl Weaver started Ripken at third base, which was then his position, against the Toronto Blue Jays. The previous day, Weaver had rested the 21-year-old rookie in the second game of a doubleheader...
...Toronto jury convicted Paul Bernardo, the handsome "boy next door" accused of the brutal rapes and murders of two teenage girls in Canada, of all nine counts against him in just seven hours. The trial, with its sordid videotape evidence of Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka sexually abusing the teenagers, often transfixed Canadians with twists and turns akin to those in the O.J. Simpson case. "At the high points of the trial, such as when Bernardo testified, people were lining up at four in the morning to get one of the one hundred courtroom seats," reports TIME's Gavin...
...really happy and grateful," says Arnold, resting in his trailer between scene changes on the set of The Stupids, which is currently filming in Toronto. As well he might be. On July 22, Arnold, 36, married Julie Champnella, a 22-year-old senior at CalState-Northridge. And with his asking price soaring to $4 million a picture, Arnold can easily afford the sprawling, Mediterranean-style home on 20 acres in the Agoura Hills section of Los Angeles that has just become the new couple's new abode...
Devi, who sued to stop a Toronto Film Festival screening of Bandit Queen, has since settled with the producers and, says Kapur, "now stands by the film." But the Indian government would not grant her a passport to attend the U.S. premiere. American filmgoers can see an exciting movie that brings Devi's story to life with passion but without passing judgment. In India, though, a venal game is being played: the upper-class guardians of public morality who once defamed this low-caste rebel are now ensuring that Bandit Queen remains an untouchable...
...have not the will, the manpower nor the sense to stop those at war in the region. Can anybody defend the actions taken by the Balkan warlords or the useless talk by NATO members and the U.N.? Can't we shame those "leaders" into behaving like humans? ROLF JAMES Toronto...