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...pressure of superpower rivalry sprang to life. It was both a familiar kind of bloodletting and a new kind. Security arrangements like NATO were of no use. They had been fashioned to keep East and West from resorting to long-range missiles, and were helpless at first to contain the face-to-face hatreds of Bosnia and Kosovo. Then there was Rwanda and Zaire, where each new episode of civil war and ethnic bloodlust created a small city of refugees. In Sudan, the civil war was worsened by drought and the associated famine, which was coolly manipulated by the warring...
...Beyond the usual allegations and denials, though, the case may contain some particular problems. Unless it can be proved that a vast right-wing conspiracy forced the Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until...
...hope this glossary gives you a better sense of March Madness and all its wonderful aspects and traditions. Now you can participate in those fun dinnertime discussions and say intelligent things like "Well I had Iowa State going to the Four but I realized Fizer couldn't contain the mad ups of MSU's Pederson...
Relatives of the gynecologist, Dr. Larry Ford, who was a partner in a small biotech firm, had told police of the weapons cache, and police feared the canisters might contain dangerous biological or chemical compounds. A local newspaper had linked Ford to South Africa's biological-weapons program. So before police searched Ford's property, they closed a nearby elementary school and evacuated about 50 families from the neighborhood, putting them up at a local Hyatt Regency. One of the neighbors, a balding, middle-aged man loading up a van for a family ski trip, shook his head in bewilderment...
Titus (debuts march 20, 8:30 p.m. E.T., Fox) may have the most jarring laugh track in TV history. In the pilot alone, Christopher Titus (as himself) gets decked by his drunken dad Ken, announces that his mom is clinically insane, and lurks outside a room that just may contain pop's corpse--all to the same sort of yuks as when the sassy blind guy gets off a zinger on Becker...