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...Earnhardt crash, tragic as it may be, could be its ticket. The deadly mishap landed Earnhardt - and NASCAR - at the top of every Sunday-night newscast and on the front page of every Monday-morning newspaper. The sport wanted to reach a wider audience, gain a greater legitimacy. And for anyone whose interest in the sport was piqued by the news - and whose wasn't? - the Earnhardt obituary makes a sad-but-perfect introduction...
...When you've killed nine people in an accident, it's hard to see how much worse things could get. Of course, having civilians in these seats makes the incident look worse, but it's unlikely to deepen the damage. It's a tragic accident, but it's unlikely to significantly affect the U.S.-Japan defense relationship...
...course, not everyone agrees with Seltzer's assessment - least of all IBM. Last week, the company released a statement: "If this book points to new and verifiable information that advances understanding of this tragic era, IBM will examine it and ask that appropriate scholars do the same." But company spokespeople insist that Black's allegations are not new, that historians have long been aware that the Nazis used IBM's tabulating machines. And, spokespeople insist, the company is paying for its mistakes: IBM Germany, formerly Dehomag, has already paid into Germany's government-sponsored initiative to compensate citizens forced...
...illegally last year, five times the number in 1994. And as the demand to enter Europe has widened, so have the opportunities for traffickers who would profit from these masses on the move. Scores of immigrants now put their lives in the hands of feckless smugglers, with tragic results. Hundreds die crossing the Mediterranean into Spain each year; last week the corpses of 10 more North African immigrants washed up on Spain's southern shores...
...real tragic romance of the show wasn't about sex, exactly, and wasn't about ageism. And it all started with show-tune-belting Maralyn leaning back like Marlene Dietrich in the Australian shallows and rhapsodizing about Tina, in what may have been the butchest moment in network television history...