Word: chased
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...barons of the game say baseball is back. "The game is more popular today than ever before," boasted commissioner Bud Selig after the '98 McGwire-Sosa home-run chase. That burst of excitement gave the widespread impression that baseball was on the rebound...
...ever there was a case of the Justice Department embarking on a wild-goose chase to satisfy a tragically deluded family, this is it. The farce began when King's family came under Pepper's bamboozling spell. He convinced them that Ray, the convicted assassin, was just a fall guy set up to take the blame for an intricate plot that encompassed, among others, Lyndon Johnson's White House, the Pentagon, the Mafia, the Memphis police and a mysterious figure named Raoul. Key parts of the story soon collapsed--for example, the leader of an Army sharpshooting team who Pepper...
...bought by Miramax. Throughout the weeklong event, AtomFilms.com drove a slow-moving RV equipped with a television for aspiring directors to use to screen their short films, in the hope of getting purchased by the site. Bad films were dropped off at the end of Main Street, like some chase-scene version of The Gong Show...
...Fatone, 23. "This family went on a pilgrimage to my house and left me all these pictures of Bass shoes," says Bass. "I think they're psycho." 'N Sync mania is even more intense outside the U.S. "We think Europe has the next Olympic gold medalists, because they will chase our bus for one or two miles," explains Timberlake. And the band isn't even aware that at this moment 30 teenage girls, and nine of the smartest teenage boys in the world, are sitting in the cold on the sidewalk outside 'N Sync's hotel just so they...
...Stock pickers should look for banks and thrifts in growth regions like the South and West and with diverse income streams. Tom Theurkauf, analyst at Keefe Bruyette Woods, likes Washington Mutual and Fleet Boston. Scott Black, president of Delphi Management, likes North Fork and Peoples Heritage. Among larger banks, Chase and Bank of New York look attractive. But beware banks with operating difficulties, like First Union and Banc One. They won't rise with the tide. Bank...