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...second play from scrimmage--the Crimson set the tone for the drive when Yohe hit a streaking Ed Boyle wide open in the middle of the field. Boyle dropped the ball, but three plays later he made up for it by snagging a bullet from triple-pumping Yohe...
...confirmed workaholic, North regularly puts in 16-to-18-hour days while in Washington. He dislikes paperwork, and once groused to a friend, "Every time a terrorist fires a bullet, we have to fill out a pile of papers." Colleagues quip that North's real power comes from two office computers hooked into the major U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies, and from a secure telephone line that he uses for classified conversations. For his own protection, the slender officer is rarely photographed or quoted in news accounts. "He is there to serve the President, and that is it," a colleague says...
...came back as a conservative and won a second term four years later. During the Senate campaign, Bond got an unintentional boost when Woods ran a TV spot that pictured a farmer in tears, provoking a serious negative reaction. Bond called the "crying farmer" spot the "silver bullet that was pointed in the wrong direction." The new Senator says he might differ with the Senate's present Republican leaders on only one issue: he wants no part of any potential tax increase...
...Jewish schoolbooks. While Israeli textbooks are guilty of condescension toward Arab culture, Jordanian textbooks used in West Bank schools--and Arab newspapers in general--exhibit virulent militarism and anti-semitism and never mention peaceful reconciliation as a goal. Instead, Arab elementary school children read poems such as "A bullet in the chest of the criminal aggressor/Is more delicate than the whisper of the poem and more merciful...
...There was the crack of a single rifle shot fired from the wood and the bald man who was holding me took the bullet right through his face. It was a horrible sight. His head seemed to splash open and little soft bits of grey stuff flew out in all directions." Younger readers may be astonished that this graphic recollection comes from the author of durable children's books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Admirers of Roald Dahl's "grownup" ^ stories (Kiss Kiss, Switch Bitch) should not be surprised. The passage, which appears in the second installment of Dahl...