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What is most striking is that Wilson's stubborn resistance uses the court's ruling as a pretext for a radical stance which is not required by the decision itself: the narrowly tailored verdict requires only that a parimutuel betting system like the one at the Golden State's racetracks be used at Native American casinos, not that all gaming be put to an abrupt stop. So as long as tribes devise a system which pits competitors against each other rather than against "the house," their activities would conform to the court's ruling...
JOEL STEIN faithfully tuned in to Touched by an Angel to get a feel for the genre of religious-themed TV shows appearing this fall. His verdict? "It's a pretty well-paced, watchable show," he says. "Besides, that Irish angel is kind of hot." Stein recently joined our staff after two years as sports editor at Time Out New York, where he profiled WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes, thigh-mistress Suzanne Somers and that other icon of athleticism, Howard Stern. Stein seems perplexed by his welcome to TIME: "Everyone here is so nice; they say hi in the cafeteria." Stein...
Jones was convicted of resisting and obstructing an arrest in June for her role in the November incident. A jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge of assaulting a police officer, Benson said...
WASHINGTON: The latest study to conclude that silicone breast implants do not cause severe illness could be the strongest verdict yet in favor of their manufacturers, reports TIME medical expert Christine Gorman. National Cancer Institute research gives the implants a "clean bill of health" as far as cancer and other diseases are concerned ? even though they frequently leak silicone throughout the body...
...Gore's top aides and money-raisers (TIME Daily) ... At the FDA's request, Redux and Fen/Phen manufacturers are withdrawing their drugs from the market (TIME Daily) ... Disgraced former Chinese Communist chief Zhao Ziyang, purged after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, asks the party to reverse its verdict that those protests were a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" (TIME Daily) ... Thirty-three people are missing following a mysterious crash involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane and a German military airliner off the coast of Africa (TIME Daily) ... TIME magazine also reports that America Online is forging alliances with Microsoft (TIME Daily...