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...Several London newspapers, as well as the television tabloid "Hard Copy" reported earlier this week that one of Jackson's own security cameras captured Jackson and a 13-year-old boy in a sexual encounter on a 27-minute black-and-white video tape. Jackson has branded the stories "vicious lies and rumors." Los Angeles prosecutors say they know of no such tape, and are not looking...
...Crimson fought back in one of the league's most vicious rinks. Kirk Nielsen tallied another power play goal for the Crimson with 6:25 left to go in the second period...
...times Alan Rudolph, the director (and co-writer) of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
Nearly everyone agrees that illegitimacy and teen pregnancy are key elements in poverty's vicious cycle and that the government should try to reduce them. Gingrich's orphanage proposal, however, seems punitive -- not to mention odd, coming from a man who was born to a 16-year-old mother eight months after she left his abusive father. It would violate federal law, which mandates family- based care over institutions, and ignore the public policy consensus -- first expressed by the Teddy Roosevelt White House -- that "no child should be deprived of his family by reason of poverty alone...
...vicious hits in football may be causing lasting brain damage...