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...Barry Bonds, got the biggest ones: $43.75 million for six years in San Francisco. Hockey's best, Mario Lemieux, got almost as much ($42 million, seven years) to stay in Pittsburgh. Baseball owners cried poverty -- and demanded to reopen their contract with the players' union -- but, like a randy widow, couldn't help throwing money at those big, handsome athletes. Even the barons of the N.F.L. can no longer look smugly upon the agitation of lesser moguls; last week they acceded to the players' suit for free agency. Serves 'em right: let the bidding frenzy spread like...
...third trial of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, 72, in the assassination of Evers on June 12, 1963. Beckwith was tried twice in 1964 by all-white juries, which deadlocked. Beckwith's wife Thelma wept at the news of the new trial. So did Evers' widow Myrlie...
...modified plan has been approved by a committee which includes Betty Shabbaz, Malcolm X's widow, and filmmaker Spike...
Education and individual responsibility are the keys to upholding the legacy of Malcolm X, said the controversial Black leader's widow, Dr. Betty Shabazz, at a Cabot House luncheon yesterday...
...locked wooden box in a self-storage locker they had rented. On the last day, the couple panicked as their victim -- dehydrated and possibly suffering from an existing heart condition -- neared death. "He actually died in my arms that afternoon," Seale testified, as the oil executive's widow stared intently at him. The couple buried Reso's body in a forest but continued to demand money from Exxon, pledging his safe return. Seale still faces state charges of felony murder and kidnapping, which could result in further life sentences...