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Kobe vs. Reggie: Round 1
Kobe Bryant and Reggie Miller both heard the buzzer. They reactedas though it meant Round 1.
Miller and Bryant were walking toward each other just momentsafter the horn sounded to end the Los Angeles Lakers' 96-84 victoryover the Indiana Pacers on Friday night when a fight broke out.
The two All-Stars tangled, and the skirmish spilled over onto thescorers' table, with the Lakers - including Shaquille O'Neal - tryingto pull Miller's teammates away from the pile.
There had been no obvious trouble between the two during the game,nor was there any apparent animosity between O'Neal and Brad Millerin their first meeting since the Lakers center took a swing at …
Lane, Henry: Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane.(Brief article)(Book review)
Lane, Henry
Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane. Ian Michael Spurgeon. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2008. 291 pp. $42.50.
'"Man of Douglas joins a rash of recent books on Lane, perhaps an indication that antebellum actors on the Kansas stage long overshadowed by Brown now benefit from a resurgence of interest. Spurgeon's book promises to be the most useful, given its sound scholarship and portentous chronological range--from Lane's 1854 migration from Indiana to his 1866 suicide.... Ironically, the strength of Spurgeon's book--its close political analysis and tight chronology--is also its primary weakness. In Minerva-like fashion, …
MAN WHO MARRIED WIDOW OF SLAIN BANKER INDICTED.(CAPITAL REGION)
GARDEN CITY -- Daniel Pelosi, the Long Island electrician who became the focus of a grand jury inquiry after he married the widow of bludgeoned investment banker Theodore Ammon, was ordered to surrender to face charges in the killing, the district attorney said Monday.
Ammon, whose estate was worth a reported $100 million, ran the private equity firm Chancery Lane Capital and was chairman of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
``An indictment has been filed by a special grand jury,'' Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said, adding that Pelosi's attorneys were instructed by fax on Monday to have their client appear today at the district attorney's office in …


