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...father's thumb. "Dodi," says his friend, "started finding his legs." And on that Saturday night, it seemed as if an engagement was almost certain, even though, as the French police now say, the fabled Repossi diamond ring was never found in the car or on Diana's finger. For the princess apparently had one more thing to do before she could make a public commitment. She had to talk to her sons...
...really hard to finger," Benson said. "We just really came out uninspired. It was astonishing. If we play the same against Brown or Navy the way we did against Iona or MIT, yeah, we'll get hammered...
WASHINGTON: For politicians, there are hot seat issues and there are comfortable armchair issues. But in the tobacco settlement, President Clinton has found a real La-Z-Boy ? where he can take an extremely popular position without lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children...
MOSCOW: Maybe it's not all their fault. As the finger-pointing continues over June's collision between a cargo ship and Mir's Spektr module, a panel of top Russian space officials said that ground controllers must share some of the blame with cosmonauts Vasily Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin. That's something of a relief for the two spacemen, who earlier this week were fingered by Valery Ryumin, coordinator of the NASA-Mir mission, as the sole culprits in the crack...
...space walk was a welcome grace note in a week of too familiar problems for the pratfall-prone station. Four days before, the onboard computer failed--again. Shortly after, there was a touch-and-go moment as a cargo ship approached the station--again. Amid all this, the inevitable finger-pointing began. Russian President Boris Yeltsin suggested that recently returned crewmen Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin were largely responsible for the station's woes; at his postflight press conference, an indignant Tsibliyev denied the charge...