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...good men against corporate Evil, then stereotypes their sanctity. Joe may be attracted to Elma, but the pacifist in him would never show lust: he doesn't do widows. And by the time the noble blacks start harmonizing with the noble Italians, you may be ready to cheer for the villains...
Tobacco industry officials have had little to cheer about of late, but they raised huzzahs last week -- and watched the value of their corporate shares climb -- in the wake of two important court cases. In Boston, a federal appeals court ruled that the Surgeon General's warning labels on every package of U.S. cigarettes shielded Liggett & Myers, based in Durham, N.C., in a $3 million lawsuit filed by the heirs of a lung cancer victim. Just four days earlier in Atlanta, another appeals court had made a similar ruling in favor of American Brands of Old Greenwich, Conn., the maker...
...found a niche in high school basketball and baseball. "I had the exhibitionism knocked out of me, though," he says. "During one basketball game I was knocked into the lap of a real pretty girl. She was drinking a Coke, and I took a sip. There was a rousing cheer. Later my dad told me, 'You're out there to play...
...skirmishes, while hawkers selling peanuts and cigarettes worked the crowd. Late in the afternoon, armored personnel carriers began advancing down the boulevard toward the camp, firing shells at the rebel-held buildings and sending the civilians scurrying for + cover. The crowd was rooting for the government forces, and a cheer went up when the troop carriers moved cautiously through Camp Aguinaldo's front gate. The cheering stopped when an errant shell exploded in the middle of a small crowd. The limp bodies of two civilians were hastily dragged away...
Facing a crowd of labor negotiators last week, Chung Ju Yung shouted the traditional Korean cheer for long life. Mansei! was an appropriate chant for the farm boy turned industrialist. He had just agreed to a settlement that would spark his $14 billion-a-year Hyundai Group back to life...