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...Navy stay until 2003, using only dummy bombs. In return, Puerto Rico would get, essentially, a bribe: some $40 million in additional Washington aid. But most Puerto Ricans tell pollsters they want the Navy out now. Indeed, Vieques residents may soon pass a referendum that could void the three-year pact. That is one reason why demonstrators persevered until they were peacefully herded off last week by Janet Reno's boys...
...percent of the $15 billion CD market, settled with the FTC Wednesday on charges that they've been leaning for years on music retailers to fix CD prices by threatening to withhold promotional budgets from stores that don't adhere to a so-called "minimum advertised price" (MAP). The three-year price-fixing binge, according to FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky, cost consumers a total of $480 million. The MAP programs will now cease, and teen-idol fans will now have more money in their piggy banks...
Things become truly troubling when human beings facing the same difficult circumstances start making equally brutal choices. Anthropologists report that during a three-year period of social upheaval in Bolivia in the 1930s, nearly every mother in an Ayoreo Indian village committed infanticide at least once. In India and China, selective infanticide of baby girls is still commonly, if quietly, practiced. And while there may be less of a history of such killing in the U.S., periodic cases of high-schoolers secretly giving birth and then murdering their infant are proof that such practices know no cultural boundaries...
More importantly, the Harvard defense found a way to quiet Notre Dame junior Lael O'Shaugnessy down the stretch. O'Shaugnessy scored the 100th goal of her three-year career in the first half, then exploded for two goals in the first three minutes of the second half to spot the Irish a 9-7 lead. But O'Shaugnessy's stick was silent after that as she watched the Crimson go on a 5-1 scoring run to end the game...
Although football contracts are not guaranteed, a three-year deal would gross a million dollars, as long as he kept making the roster...