Word: del
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...drug raid on her Lake Sherwood ranch and a $500,000 payment to a former movie-studio employee who suffered back injuries and was disabled after he was allegedly kicked by a deputy sheriff for failing to follow instructions promptly when stopped for a traffic violation in Marina del Rey in 1982. In 1983 Charles Porter and his wife were leaving a restaurant in City of Commerce when they were detained by deputies investigating what turned out to be a false alarm for a robbery. According to Porter, he was repeatedly clubbed by a deputy and his wife was struck...
...even as we become unwitting James Joyces -- coining neologisms by the minute -- when we essay a foreign language, we also become Marcel Marceaus: asking the way to the rest room with our eyebrows or sending back the squid with a paroxysm of mock pain. Ask a man in Tierra del Fuego to point you to The Sound of Music, and he'll instantly reply, "No problem!" (which, in every language, means that your problems are just beginning). Then he'll direct you to the Julie Andrews musical that the Argentines call The Rebel Nun. And when you say "Thank...
...miles to the south of metropolitan Las Vegas (pop. 650,000). Founded by Don Laughlin, an enterprising developer who arrived in 1966, the hamlet has used its riverfront location to attract nine casinos since 1986. The town boasts more than 4,000 rooms in such hotels as Harrah's Del Rio and Circus Circus's Colorado Belle. Another 5,500 rooms are being built. However, the frantic pace of construction has strained Laughlin's meager civic resources. The town suffers from shortages of housing, labor and water and must send high school students across the river to Bullhead City, Ariz...
This month a federal grand jury in Atlanta is expected to hand up indictments in connection with almost $3 billion in unauthorized loans funneled to Iraq through the local branch of the Rome-based Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Although the individual credits themselves were not forbidden, their sum total violated state and federal banking regulations, as well as those of the home bank in Italy. Federal investigators are reportedly trying to ascertain if BNL Atlanta extended a credit to a British-based company accused of trying to procure for Iraq elements of a triggering device for an atom bomb...
...CONGRESS, ready to sieze the gnat, has begun to gear up for another round of flag burning debate. Last week, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowed to introduce a constitutional amendment to protect the flag if the Court overturns the 1989 flag...