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...could this happen? In 1976 President Ford signed an Executive Order banning political assassination by any employee of the U.S. government. President Reagan, to his credit, even tightened the ban, dropping the word political and adding that nobody "acting on behalf of" the U.S.--such as contract killers--could assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
...SIGNED. PAUL GASCOIGNE, 35, former star English footballer, a one-year contract as player?coach for the Chinese second-division team Gansu Tianma (Heavenly Horses). Better known as Gazza (Jia Jia in Chinese), Gascoigne has been plagued by weight and drinking problems in recent years and failed to sign with an English club this season. He will move to his new club's home, Lanzhou, near the Gobi Desert, this month. "It's a great challenge," he said...
...Breimer said that Harvard’s decision to consider applicants who might be rendered ineligible upon admission to another school under an Early Decision contract may makes the increase misleadingly large...
...Healthy Ma has a one-year contract with the Shanghai Sharks, a shaved skull, a black Fubu do-rag, a red Phat Farm sweatshirt, a U.S. green card, and an American wife and two little sons in Henderson, Nevada. At 33, balanced on a weak right knee, he yearns for one last NBA dance...
...October hearing on the motions for summary judgment, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock indicated that he was more inclined to believe Harvard had broken the contract than that it had intentionally falsified its funding requests—the basis of the FCA claim...