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...knew how--as Brian Ralph did in Saturday's game against Brown--to get caught in a rundown between first and second when there's an alert baserunner on third and a not-so-alert team in the field...
...Gramm take offense? Did his supporters write letters to newspapers and magazines about his loyalty, his interesting gait, his ever alert nature and his ability to learn simple tricks much faster than a golden retriever? Not at all. Senator Gramm, relentlessly working on his comedy timing the way he has relentlessly worked on his Senate career, publicly took up the question of whether an ugly man can be elected President...
CHINESE TROOPS LAUNCHING missiles that splash down perilously close to Taiwan and put its armed forces on high alert. A U.S carrier task force cruising the area, another sailing toward it. Washington assessing whether--and how--it might have to help Taiwan should the island be attacked by China. These are the most serious signals to date about the state of relations between the world's sole remaining superpower and its sole up-and-coming superpower. One misstep and one misperception after another in recent years have bumped the U.S. and China closer to crisis. The latest rupture has been...
...almost unheard of in Scotland, where gun laws are much stricter than those in the U.S. At least 12 of the 13 other children and one adult were wounded. Frantic parents, police and emergency technicians rushed to the school as hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh were put on alert. The shooting occurred at the 700-student Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, a 13th century cathedral village of 9,000 people 40 miles from Edinburgh. Queen Elizabeth sent her condolences, and British Prime Minister John Major, now at a world summit on terrorism in Cairo, called the shootings...
...cautionary measure" and he didn't think China would invade the island. China has started eight days of war games in a 6,600-square-mile area which stretches to the mid-point of the Taiwan Strait - an unofficial border between the two sides. Taiwanese officials have heightened military alert in response to China's maneuver. China is trying to intimidate Taiwanese from voting for President Lee Teng-hui in elections later this month. China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and Beijing is convinced Lee is seeking to make the island independent. There were peace overtures between...