Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service articles from May 2001

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service archives from May 2001

Children's furnishings designer schemes with color.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ For children's furnishings designer Beth Conant, her work is all about how she sees things. Shunning the notion that boys are limited to blue and girls to pink, her own daughter's nursery was designed with heavy doses of...

`What's the Worst that Could Happen?'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... Upon seeing "What's the Worst that Could Happen?" you may wonder why Martin Lawrence's girlfriend keeps waitressing when he is regularly bringing home more cash in a night than she would earn in a year. Or why Danny DeVito would answer a...

HBO's hit series should stay out of the gutter _ and the men's room.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... "Sex and the City" is one of those shows that most critics love because it pushes the envelope. That's a popular cliche which usually means the script contains plenty of curse words and sexual descriptions. Often, it doesn't matter how...

Seven ex-AutoNation workers charged with cheating customers.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... MIAMI _ The former general manager and six ex-employees of an AutoNation dealership in California were charged in Los Angeles with conspiring to defraud car buyers by including hidden costs in sales contracts and then lying about the charges....

Pregnant players paired in first round.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ Brenda Kuehn, despite shooting a 9-over 79, knew why a swarm of reporters and television cameras waited for her after the round. "Everybody wants to ask what the pregnant woman shot," Kuehn said. Ah, but which...

Father, daughter tackle Open together.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ The putt tumbled into the cup and the crowd cheered and Gilles Gagnon took his hat off and kissed his daughter Dominique on the cheek. After all these years, he had finally made the U.S. Open. Thirty times he had...

Plot lines aplenty, but favorites rule Round 1.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ The pregnant woman had a contraction while playing with another pregnant woman. The 13-year old stole the gallery's heart. The favorites were right where they're supposed to be. And, by the way, Cindy...

Clemson, Miami have history of heated games.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... CLEMSON, S.C. _ The return of Clemson to Coral Gables, Fla., stirred memories that were mostly unpleasant for Neil Simons. A center fielder for the Tigers from 1977-1980, Simons was a member of teams that met Miami in the postseason eight...

World's best lead the pack after first round of U.S. Open.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ Yes, this is the United States Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. The women's golf championship of the USA. Even though nearly half of Thursday's list of first-round leaders sounded like roll call at...

`Humpy Bumper' could help to keep Winston Cup drivers safer.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ Wilbur and Orville Wright made bicycles and were the first men to fly, so why not? Why couldn't a company that makes bicycle wheels for Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong have the solution to a dilemma that has...

Kuehn labors to first-round 79.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ Brenda Corrie Kuehn felt the pain coming as she stood over her tee shot on the 11th hole of Thursday's opening round of the U.S. Women's Open, but she swung anyway. As the drive settled into the fairway at Pine...

Muhammad faces potential crisis at quarterback too.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ The baby boy came May 5th, on his father's 28th birthday. He shares the same name as his dad. But the little boy has already picked up a nickname: Baby Moose. If you're a Carolina Panthers fan, you know Baby Moose could...

Sampras ousted in Paris.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... PARIS _ Too bad winning Roland Garros isn't more like a math problem or a difficult word to spell. Pete Sampras could just practice harder, get a tutor, memorize the letters. Heck, he could even tuck a cheat sheet up his sleeve. The same...

People in the news.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... ANNE HECHE ENGAGED Ellen who? Anne Heche, formerly half of Hollywood's most high-profile lesbian couple, is engaged, reports E!Online _ to a man. Less than a year after she and Ellen DeGeneres called it quits, Heche has accepted...

Marlins' change in managers makes little difference.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 31, 2001... MIAMI _ Baseball managers are overrated, all of them, across the board. Their importance is inflated because of today's coach-worship culture, where we assign our champion leaders a higher intelligence, making them authors and pitchmen and...

Prop turns out to be valuable Tiffany lamp.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Q. My mother has a Tiffany lamp that she acquired about 30 years ago when the local high school was cleaning out props used in their theatrical productions. The top of the lamp is marked "Tiffany New York" and the base of the lamp is...

Swimming pool Q&A.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... Q. Recently, you responded to someone who was having trouble with his pool pump failing each year. In your response you said, "Make sure the pump runs at least a few hours a day." I live in California where we're having an energy crisis....

Home energy Q&A.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... Q. We want to move and have found a neighborhood of beautiful older homes. We love one of them in particular, and our real estate agent keeps telling us how well-built these homes are and how we won't have to worry about energy use because...

Top items on the list changing for buyers.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... In the luxury market, to-sigh-for items come and go. The custom builders panel offered some impressions of what's "out" --or at least on its way: First on their list was enormous whirlpool tubs (except for some models that also manage to...

In the new luxury home, you'll find three laundry rooms.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... S TRIM) CHICAGO _ What does the well-dressed "luxury" home wear? Is it draped in granite countertops? Awash in half a dozen bathrooms? Capped by crown moldings? The answer is "all of the above," but that's just for starters. If you...

Except for the CEO pay issue, most annual meetings are peaceful.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... With profits and share prices down for many companies, you'd think the nuns and anti-sweatshop demonstrators would have to get in line behind angry shareholders at corporate annual meetings this spring. Except for one glaring exception _...

European and American designers turn their backs on traditions.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... NEW YORK _ He insisted, half grinning: "The actual definition of the word `orgy' in the Oxford Dictionary is `a gathering, a bringing of people together.' It doesn't have to be sexual.'' So said Karim Rashid, the guy dressed in just about...

Principles to keep in mind.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Penelope Hobhouse's approach to gardening is governed by a strong set of guiding principles, several of which are listed below: _Strong overall structure is important to any garden. Structure can be provided by architecture, hardscape and...

British designer Penelope Hobhouse bridges the great gardening divide.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... CHICAGO _ If she moved to Chicago, Penelope Hobhouse wouldn't change her designing ways all that much. Some plants would be different, of course, but she would still create a garden "with a strong architectural design softened by junglelike...

Battle of the Buds pits small Czech brewery against U.S. behemoth.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... PRAGUE, Czech Republic _ Call it Big Bud vs. Little Bud. In courtrooms from Vilnius to Vienna, Anheuser-Busch Inc., the world's largest beer producer, is going toe-to-toe with a pesky Czech brewery over who owns the rights to two of the...

What happens when the dean sets a bad example?(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Suppose you teach college journalism, and while grading your students' articles, you find one that fills you with pride. My, but this young person has learned a lot from you: The story-telling is engaging, the prose is vivid, the quotations...

Perfect soil is made, not born.(Daily Press)
May 31, 2001... There is no such thing as perfect soil. All soil has some sort of problem structure, texture or chemistry. Good soil is loose and crumbly because it has lots of air spaces, the National Garden Bureau says. Plant roots penetrate good soil...

Magazine, grower introduce plant collection.(Daily Press)
May 31, 2001... Magnolia flowers as big as dinner plates and gardenia blossoms powerful with perfume are the makings of an old-fashioned Southern garden. They also are the vivid visions you see on the gardening pages of Southern Living magazine. ...

Add whimsy and fun to your garden.(Daily Press)
May 31, 2001... Gardeners sometimes get too serious. They fret if plants don't make it. They agonize because their gardens don't look like the ones they see on the pages of slick gardening magazines. Lighten up a little. If a plant dies, see it...

Halo selling Lipson, Alport back to partners.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Less than three years after it bought Lipson, Alport, Glass & Associates, the well-regarded brand identity and marketing firm, to provide one-stop shopping in marketing, Halo Industries is selling the unit back to the partners for half of...

Mars to pass within 40.5 million miles of Earth in June.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... ORLANDO, Fla. _ Mars usually appears as an unimpressive orange dot at the end of Laurent Pellerin's telescope, but when Mars gets unusually close to Earth in this month, the view could feature a rusty-red ball with glittering ice caps,...

The names and lives of Timothy McVeigh's 168 victims.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... (BEGIN ITAL) OKLAHOMA CITY _ The day opened with the thunder of a massive car bombing at a federal building and the horror of a death toll that could run past 100. It closed with a somber presidential pledge of "swift, certain and severe...

Brother of only Fla. lawmaker to support offshore drilling is an oil lobbyist.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... WASHINGTON _ The only Florida lawmaker who backs drilling off the state's shores has a brother who is a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. But Rep. John Mica and his brother, David, said Wednesday there is no conflict of interest....

Uneasy rests Boeing king's crown.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Boeing Co.'s recent landing in its new headquarters town of Chicago made Chief Executive Phil Condit seem like corporate royalty. The tone was set with that jaunty first step off his Air Force One-style private jet at Midway Airport. ...

Happy birthday, Marilyn Monroe.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... She was born poor. Then, because her single-parent mother suffered from mental illness, she grew up in a bunch of foster homes. She was molested as a child. She was a June bride at 16 and a June divorcee three years later. ...

Bullying said to be worse for gay teens.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... CHICAGO _ As educators nationwide are tackling bullying as a destructive epidemic in schools, a new study suggests they are failing to protect a particularly vulnerable population _ gay students. The study, released this week after almost...

University of Miami hopes its code makes impression.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... MIAMI _ The University of Miami is angling to make its mark in the high-stakes world of marketing professors' research with a new method of coding digital audio files to prevent illegal downloading of music from the Internet. A UM...

IHL, Solar Bears demise expected soon.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... ORLANDO, Fla. _ After a board of governors' meeting Friday, the IHL will cease operations, and the Orlando Solar Bears, winners of their first Turner Cup less than a week ago, will disband as well. League sources told The Orlando Sentinel...

Top Palestinian official in Jerusalem dies of heart attack in Kuwait.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... JERUSALEM_Palestinians lost one of their most pragmatic and respected leaders Thursday when Faisal Husseini, the top Palestinian official in Jerusalem, died of a heart attack in Kuwait. Husseini, 61, was the scion of an influential and...

Snowmobilers, hoping for new laws, drop suit on national park ban.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... WASHINGTON_Snowmobile groups suing the federal government for access to Alaska's Denali National Park dropped their legal action Thursday in hopes of getting the Bush administration and Congress to open the park to them through legislation....

Economy at `edge of recession,' but won't fall in, Chicago Fed says.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... The U.S. economy weakened further in April but is still unlikely to slide into recession, according to a Thursday economic-activity report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The data show that falling employment and a drop in...

Networks shy away from Callaway ads during golf broadcasts.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C._Golf doesn't belong on "SportsCenter" these days. A better place might be "Meet the Press" or "Crossfire." First there was the Casey Martin case and its legal ramifications. Now there are censorship issues over the...

Microsoft trying to be more collaborative, Ballmer says.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... Microsoft Corp., while not budging from its contention that it did not violate antitrust laws, is working harder to collaborate with industry partners than before its landmark legal battle, chief executive officer Steven Ballmer said...

Florida Democrats asking out-of-staters for money to help oust Gov. Bush.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... TALLAHASSEE, Fla. _ Florida's Democratic Party is launching a first-ever, out-of-state fund-raising campaign for its drive to oust Republican Gov. Jeb Bush in 2002. State party leaders hope that Democrats across the nation will open...

Now starring was Willis Reed Jr. . . . Eric Snow.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... PHILADELPHIA _ Before each of the last four playoff games, the 76ers' coaching staff has gathered the players and shown them footage of Willis Reed's dramatic appearance on a severely hobbled leg that inspired the Knicks to a Game 7 victory...

For Milwaukee, series with 76ers has become most foul.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... PHILADELPHIA _ As dramatically as the Eastern Conference finals have played out on the court, the off-court intrigue has been nearly as entertaining. Bucks coach George Karl stormed out of a postgame news conference Wednesday night after...

AIDS is resurgent in the U.S., CDC report shows.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... ORLANDO, Fla. _ New HIV infections are spreading at an alarming rate among young gay and bisexual men, indicating the gay community may be vulnerable for a resurgence of the disease. According to a government report released Thursday 4.4...

McVeigh will request a stay of his execution.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... DENVER _ Timothy McVeigh's lawyers, contending that the federal government perpetrated "fraud upon the court," on Thursday asked for a stay of his June 11 execution for the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people. The attorneys...

77 not in Pressel's plans: `It wasn't great; It wasn't bad'.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ When the round was finished, Morgan Pressel fought back tears. At 13, she shot 77 in the first round of the U.S. Women's Open. It was a highly respectable round, putting her in the same company as Beth Daniel and...

Yankees fuel drag racer's title quest.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... CHICAGO _ In 1999, Mike Dunn won the Top Fuel division at the NHRA Nationals in Joliet. So naturally he returned to Route 66 Raceway last year. To a television booth. Despite its success, Dunn's team had lost its sponsorship and he was...

Moms are up with leaders.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C.-- A 13-year-old walked the fairways in the biggest tournament of the year Thursday. But this is not the U.S. Girls' Open. While the barely teenage Morgan Pressel received more air time than Tiger Woods for shooting...

Pressel shows she's no fluke, dad says.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... ``You would be surprised how far a 3-foot putt looks in a U.S. Open.'' Morgan Pressel X X X SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ She didn't hit her drives in orbit like John Daly, or dominate like Tiger Woods, but she was a spectacle just...

Players help sway Perez to keep job.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... MIAMI _ This much is certain about the Marlins' new manager: No player is going to question his credentials. The Marlins called off their managerial search in its early stages Thursday when Hall of Famer Tony Perez, encouraged by the...

War of words continues for Miceli, fans.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 31, 2001... MIAMI _ Oh, come on, folks, look at the positive side of Dan Miceli spending another day in paradise. Well. Hmm. OK, so there's not a positive side. ``Get him out of here,'' left-fielder Cliff Floyd said. ``Please. For not...

Cubs need to keep burning bridges to past.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... CHICAGO _ Feel free to burn this column the way Julio Zuleta did. Blame my analysis on Thursday's bone-chilling Edgar Allan Poe rain nearly a third of the way into baseball season. It's certainly possible I've lost my mind wondering if the...

Bourque's goal gives Avs second victory, 3-1.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ Ray Bourque's quest for the first Stanley Cup of his 22-year NHL career took a dramatic turn Thursday night when he blasted the go-ahead goal in the third game of the championship series. The 40-year-old...

Avalanche's victory in New Jersey is a first.(Chicago Tribune)
May 31, 2001... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ The Devils' workshop no longer is the temple of doom for the Colorado Avalanche after Thursday night's 3-1 victory in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals that put them two games away from winning the series. Colorado...

Mira Sorvino hosts AMC's 75th birthday salute to Marilyn Monroe.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... Nearly 40 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe still stirs the imagination. And it has little to do with nostalgia. Like Bogart and Elvis and others, Marilyn has transcended generations, touching those who weren't even alive when...

People in the news.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... PAVAROTTI AND FRIENDS SING FOR AFGHAN REFUGEES Singers Tom Jones and Barry White performed under the stars Tuesday night in Modena, Italy, to help Luciano Pavarotti raise money for Afghanistan refugees. Actor Michael Douglas and wife...

Keller trusts in solid performances.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ He's been dubbed the "concrete master" by some of his fellow drivers in NASCAR's Grand National series. And you can bet Jason Keller is anxiously awaiting Saturday's visit to the 1-mile highly banked concrete oval at...

For Cardinal, it's a matter of reloading, not rebuilding.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... COLUMBIA, S.C. _ In 1999, Mike Gosling brought a left arm that could throw a fastball more than 90 mph and an All-American high school career to Stanford. Three years later, he's finally getting his chance to put them to use. That's the...

Roddick works OT to beat Chang.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... PARIS _ Andy Roddick no longer could see the sun, just its deepening orange glow as it dipped under the Court Philippe Chatrier stands. He had seen those same hues illuminate the red clay before, 12 years ago on TV when Michael Chang overcame...

Krzyzewski says making the Hall is the `ultimate honor'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... DURHAM, N.C. _ Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski joked about his heritage, playing ability and age, but he turned serious Wednesday to thank his family for helping earn what he called the "ultimate honor" _ induction into the Naismith Memorial...

Founding mothers helped make LPGA what it is today.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ At 8 o'clock this morning, $15 million worth of golfers were scheduled to go off the first tee in the opening round of the U.S. Women's Open at Pine Needles Lodge and Resort. The $15 million is what Annika Sorenstam, Se...

Grant, Jeffers test status after injury rehab.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ After months of rehabilitation, wide receiver Patrick Jeffers and safety Deon Grant were back on the field working with their Carolina Panthers teammates Wednesday as a series of off-season coaching sessions opened. ...

Five members of Clemson football staff disciplined for violations.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... CLEMSON, S.C. _ Five members of Clemson's football staff received penalties ranging from mandatory attendance of a rules seminar to frozen salaries, and a booster has been disassociated from the athletics program for one year in response to...

Sorenstam is women's golf real deal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ Annika Sorenstam doesn't want the world. Sorenstam still takes coupons and a discount card to her favorite grocery store. She got excited recently when the store near her Orlando, Fla., home had a two-for-one sale...

Kennedy's colorful Camelot fashions lure fans to N.Y. show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... NEW YORK _ Before Diana, there was Jackie. Two decades before England's lost blond princess emerged as a fashion icon, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, a mannequin-thin, wide-eyed brunet, defined style during her 1,000-day reign as the queen...

`Shiksa Goddess: Or, How I Spent My Forties,' by Wendy Wasserstein; Knopf.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... Wendy Wasserstein moves in rarified circles. When she's facing a long hospitalization to prolong daughter Lucy Jane's stay in her womb, she gets the institutional beige sterility of her room thoroughly obscured by Tony Award-winning costume...

`John Henry Days: A Novel,' by Colson Whitehead; Doubleday.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
May 30, 2001... Race relations, the trivialization of modern culture, the weight of serendipity on small lives, history vs. legend, big-city edginess vs. the stage-set innocence of rural towns, the ideal of manhood in the late 19th Century vs. male behavior...

Fish-free ways to get omega-3s.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... If you're not a fish eater, don't despair. There are other sources of omega-3s; they're just not as concentrated as those in fish. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EHA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are the two healthful types of omega-3 fatty...

HBO is still firmly on top with `Six Feet Under'.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... "Six Feet Under" is the next great television series. The question of whether HBO could come up with a worthy successor to "The Sopranos" and "The Larry Sanders Show" has been hanging over the pay-cable network like an indictment for...

Black Bean And Cheese Quesadillas.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... Wrap up dinner plans with meal of black bean- and cheese-stacked tortillas. Meat-lovers can add any leftover meat such as strips of roast beef or chicken. Prepare a box of Mexican-seasoned rice to serve alongside, serve with a tossed...

Israelis wonder if military should push Arafat from power.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... RAMALLAH, West Bank_As the Palestinian uprising enters its ninth month, Israelis are wondering aloud whether their army should try to push Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from power. In recent weeks, Israeli politicians, generals and...

Sol features worlds of experience and plenty of offense.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... MIAMI _ Sandy Brondello grew up in the sugar-cane fields outside Mackay, Australia, near the Great Barrier Reef. She learned to play basketball on a grass court with a backboard her father built in the backyard. "That grass court...

Earlier teen phenom got cold shoulder at her LPGA debut.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. _ When Natalie Gulbis watched 13-year-old Morgan Pressel walk into the Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club locker room Monday at the U.S. Women's Open, memories came flooding back. They weren't all good. Gulbis, the...

Journeyman skates into Cup spotlight.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ You could tell Bob Corkum wasn't used to being in the spotlight. After scoring the tying goal and taking a game-high six shots in Tuesday night's 2-1 New Jersey Devils' victory to even the best-of-seven Stanley...

Sorenstam takes aim at Webb.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. [middle dot]_ She seized Karrie Webb's place atop women's golf earlier this year. Now Annika Sorenstam will try to dethrone Webb as the reigning U.S. Women's Open champion. Sorenstam and Webb are the favorites to...

An uphill battle for Avs.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. _ As the Stanley Cup Finals move to the Meadowlands with the Devils and Avalanche having won one game apiece with Game 3 Thursday night, Colorado might have an uphill battle on its hand. The Avalanche/Quebec...

Friday is dumping day in the NFL.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... TAMPA, Fla. _ One of the biggest misconceptions of the NFL's off-season is the idea that a team can greatly improve itself with one or two marquee signings after the annual June purge. It's safe to assume any club executive who thinks...

Hurricanes' Brown can't get off roller coaster.(South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... CORAL GABLES, Fla. _ There were times this season when Kevin Brown sat on his couch, clutching a bat and wondering why this was happening to him. There was an even bigger question he asked himself, the one he had no answer for _ How was...

Familiar names on the cutting edge.(The Orlando Sentinel)
May 30, 2001... Players who could be looking for new jobs Friday: DE Lester Archambeau, Broncos Has some pass-rushing ability. LB Todd Collins, Rams Defensive house-cleaning continues. LB Lonnie Marts, Jaguars He may be near the...

NAACP, Black Caucus call for investigation of Agriculture Department nominee.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... MARCUS, Iowa_Tom Dorr may be to agriculture what Reagan Cabinet member James Watt was to national parks. Since President Bush nominated Dorr to be undersecretary of agriculture for rural development, the outspoken corn and soybean farmer...

German parliament frees fund for Nazi slave laborers.(Chicago Tribune)
May 30, 2001... Half a century after they toiled in Nazi concentration camps and German factories and farms, as many as 1.5 million former slave and forced laborers will soon begin receiving compensation for their suffering and unpaid labor during World War...