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Jennifer Lash wrote six books and bore six children. Her last novel, Blood Ties, written while she was dying of cancer, was rejected by her usual publishers and a string of others, and she died without selling it. But her children, the eldest of whom is actor RALPH FIENNES, weren't about to let it rest at that. While making The English Patient, Fiennes mentioned the book to Patient author Michael Ondaatje, who suggested the actor pitch it to his publisher, who loved it and bought it. Not content with that, half the Fiennes family (sister Sophie and brother Joseph...
...string of coincidences and conjecture," says Haney's spokesman, adding that the company "categorically and in the strongest terms" denies any quid pro quo. Knight did not return telephone calls seeking comment. Grumbly, who left the government two months ago for a job with an environmental firm, dismissed as "baloney" any suggestion that Haney got favorable treatment because of Knight or contributions...
...party animal while majoring in animal science at the University of Arizona, tried substitute teaching for a while, worked in a Tucson feed store for another while, then gravitated back to quarter horses as a trainer. He found his calling, or so he thought, putting together a successful string at Los Alamitos in Orange County, Calif., and training the 1986 world champion, Gold Coast Express. But, as Baffert recalls, "one day I came home to our little house with a tiny backyard, and my wife started telling me about a feature she had just seen on TV about Wayne Lukas...
...Crimson also shattered the record of 21 consecutive Ivy League victories--the current string stands at 26 wins...
...standing by his decision to pardon Air Force General Joseph Ralston, the top candidate to succeed John Shalikashvili as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair, for an adulterous affair. The move has many questioning whether Cohen was establishing a double standard in the military in the wake of a string of high-profile soldiers who have been dismissed on similar charges in the past few months. Cohen said Ralston's affair was forgivable because it happened 13-years ago, but the Defense Secretary just this week accepted General James Longhouser's resignation over a similar incident. "I certainly...