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...particularly strong start. After the 35-pound weight throw, in which junior Stephen McCauley was outdistanced by two feet, the Crimson ripped off first places in five straight events. The troika of freshman Josh Nicholson (6'4"), junior Terrence Mann (6'2") and senior Joseph Ghartey (6'2") combined for a high jump sweep and five points in the scorebook...
...game: 5-2, Poole adding a goal, Flinton an assist, Royal one more of each. That's 11 points in all for the troika, answered neither on the scoreboard nor in the sin bin by the Crimson...
...poking, nose-punching and head-thwapping tradition of Larry, Moe and Curly apparently extends to the Three Stooges' squabbling heirs, whose fortune the Los Angeles courts have been forced to divvy up. Today, a jury awarded more than $2 million to descendants of two of the famed troika (Larry Fine and "Curly Joe'" DeRita). The reason: the grandson and daughter of the Stooge-in-chief, Moe Howard, had stiffed the others on revenues from Stooge-related products. Jean DeRita, Curly Joe's widow, now gets almost $1.6 million, and Fine's grandchildren receive about $500,000. BTW: The next stage...
...close Katzenberg friend, says he would "love to be aligned with them. Plenty of executives would like to work for them -- I hear a lot of Xerox machines running today." Even Disney chairman Michael Eisner, who will not be sending his resume to Katzenberg, gives the troika a rave review. "Competition ignites and stimulates excellence," he says, "and for that I wish them well. I think they'll do well. And I think they'll force us to do even better than we've done in the past...
Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...