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...build an anchor industry. Yet in response to polls indicating support for gambling, the Governor has suggested that the initiative is the solution to the city's problems. While such political maneuvering has won him some support in the city, others see it for what it is: a bone thrown to a dog with the hope that it will shut...
...signed guards Alan Houston and Chris Childs for a combined $80 and then traded for Charlotte's Larry Johnson and his $71 million deal. This weekend's madness may have been best summed up by Charles Barkley, he of the $4.6 million a year contract. Upset with millions being thrown at young, unproven players, the 33-year-old Olympian said, "I'm firing my mother. She's off the Barkley payroll. She had me too soon." -- Josh Dubow
...Batista, so when the President was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1958, the Fajardo family fled Havana on a $21 round-trip flight. But once in the U.S., Jose Manuel became restless, itinerant, dreaming of Cuba. He participated in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and was thrown into a Cuban prison. Released after two years, he later went to Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was exposed to Agent Orange, developed multiple sclerosis and died in 1980. Gloria used to send her father tapes of her singing when he was away. He once sent back a tape with...
...have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager of our club convinced them that we deserved to go to Antwerp and promised that we would not embarrass the U.S. So off we went on a troopship called the Princess Matoika: 400 men, 15 girls and five chaperones thrown together for 13 days. And every day our manager reminded us of her promise...
...monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...