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...died more than a decade ago, and it was devastating. But my father remained my close confidant, trusted adviser and safety net. If I got a new job or girlfriend, he'd be first to know--and if either didn't last, he'd lend a sympathetic ear. As long as my dad was around, I was his kid. And, just like the Dylan song, I felt forever young--staying single, going skateboarding, enjoying trashy monster movies. Forty-two going on 14, and proud...
Bush and his supporters emphasized that he has talked openly about the drinking problems he had before he gave up alcohol in 1986. They saw the D.U.I. story as a suspiciously timed sucker punch, aimed at manipulating voters in the final days of a breathtakingly close race...
...intelligence service were pushing for a tougher response after the shooting deaths of three Israeli soldiers on Wednesday. Their plan, vetoed by Barak, included risky, lightning strikes into Palestinian villages by undercover forces dressed as Arabs. Arafat feared that the conflict would spiral into a full-scale war. Sources close to Arafat say he made contingency plans to flee to Yemen or Iraq if Israel tried to retake the Gaza Strip. He knows that his 34,000 lightly armed paramilitaries can't stand up to a real onslaught from Israel, which has standing armed forces of 186,000 and some...
...most complex piece of civil litigation this jurisdiction has ever seen," Lloyd's was found not guilty of defrauding investors. A jubilant Lloyd's chairman Max Taylor refrained from giving the Lutine a double ring, but he was doubly delighted with the result. Not only did the decision close a "distant and troubled chapter in Lloyd's history," he said, but it would allow Lloyd's to "get on with the business of running the world's foremost specialist insurance market." As Taylor put it in an interview with TIME, "We couldn't have wished for a more unequivocal decision...
Armed with the combination of the Keck's power and the detector's sensitivity, Ghez has been able to measure the motions of stars that lie 100 times as close to the core as the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, lies to the sun, and he finds that they're whipping around the galactic center at 1,600 miles per second, nearly 100 times as fast as Earth orbits the sun. It only takes high school physics to calculate that the object they're orbiting is as massive as 3 million suns yet packed into an area no bigger than...