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NAMES IN THE NEWS

          MIKE TYSON was the guest on CNN's "Larry King Live."
     Tyson, asked why he is so popular: "One, I'm an exciting
     fighter, outside of that, because there are a lot of
     exciting fighters. ... I'm one of those people.  I'm one of
     the people who struggles everyday to get a job, struggles
     everyday ... and I just happened to have snuck out of the
     situation." Tyson, on DON KING: "Great man. ... He's been a
     great influence in my life, been a confidence builder and
     he's sure of himself and he believes he's the best.  He
     wants what everyone else wants, he wants the most of
     everything" ("Larry King Live," CNN, 11/12).
          OTHER NAMES: Former S.F. Mayor and attorney JOSEPH
     ALIOTO is ill with prostate cancer (S.F. EXAMINER, 11/12).
     ...GREG NORMAN will become the first golfer to drive the
     official pace car at next May's Indianapolis 500 (ESPN
     SportsZone, 11/13).... Dallas-based HICKS MUSE TATE & FURST
     agreed to pay $300M for Untied Artists Theater Group -- the
     No. 2 movie theater chain (Mult., 11/13)....The attorney for
     ESPN broadcaster GARY MILLER requested a jury trial for
     public indecency, aggravated disorderly conduct and
     resisting arrest charges against Miller stemming from an
     October 14 incident.  ESPN's Mike Soltys said Miller "will
     go back on the air Friday" during college basketball pregame
     and halftime shows (USA TODAY, 11/13)....To mark the NYSE
     listing of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, NHL
     Rangers C WAYNE GRETZKY was scheduled to ring the opening
     bell this morning (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 11/13).  Full-page ads
     touting Gretzky's appearance were taken out in the Wall
     Street Journal, Financial Times and N.Y. Times (11/13).

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