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...prepared to tackle a Double Whopper with Cheese and a large French fries at a downtown Houston Burger King last week, Daniel Minturn, a stocky shipping clerk, paused a moment to reflect on the possible consequences: "I do my best off and on to keep to a diet," Minturn sighed. "But everywhere you turn, it's a warning for this and a warning for that. So what's wrong with just now and then going out and enjoying what you want...
...deny the recovery. Oh well. Par for the course. You know, the people swallow those big whopper lies real easy. They catch you and put you through hell on the little half-truths...
...federal jury in New York City made the first award to relatives of a victim of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland -- and it was a whopper. The family of Robert Pagnucco, an assistant general counsel at PepsiCo and one of the 270 people killed in the terrorist bombing, was granted $9.2 million. A previous trial had held Pan Am responsible for its lax security. Although the defunct airline plans to appeal that finding, its insurers could face more million-dollar verdicts in the 200 or so compensation cases brought by the families of other...
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER asks us to believe that the government learned to chemically reanimate dead Vietnam vets and turn them into immortal, radically improved fighting machines. It further posits a squad of these supertroopers running around the U.S. as a rogue police force. It's a whopper, all right. But Jean- Claude Van Damme is appealing as a "UniSol" whose memories of a previous life recur and lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good...
...mail for months, and that's an important bonus. Betsy got to sit on an office of Career Services panel on "How to Get a Summer Job" in the legal field. To cap it off, we both eventually got jobs ("Would you like that Whopper...