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What's the hardest way to kill yourself? Three bullets to the head certainly ranks. According to Moscow police sources, that was the actual cause of death for coup conspirator BORIS PUGO, the Soviet Interior Minister who was officially described as having "committed suicide" when the August putsch fizzled. As for two other top Communist officials reported to have killed themselves by leaping from windows, sources say they probably were pushed in order to silence them. They apparently knew too much about the smuggling of Communist wealth out of the country as the party collapsed...
...Crimson need to work on its interior defense, as well, to avoid easy buckets from Scott and the other starting forward, James Brown. Brown grabbed six boards and averaged six points a game last year. His outside shooting is suspect, though, as exhibited by his anemic 37 percent shooting from the field...
...conclusion of a workshop, when Bradshaw's interior odyssey has come to an end, he sends the crowd back out into the world on a tide of goodwill. The audience stands and sways. Everyone sings a repeated refrain, "We're going home -- nothing can stop us now." The cheers and applause build, and from somewhere in the crowd, a loud voice calls out, "We love you, John Bradshaw!" The preacher-salesman smiles. His blue eyes light up for a moment, his inner child stirs, and he tells them, "Little John likes that...
Faced with a virtual rebellion in Chechen-Ingush, a small, predominantly Muslim autonomous republic of 1.3 million in the south of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin declared a state of emergency and deployed 532 interior- ministry special police. The show of force only rallied support for Dzhokhar Dudayev, the former general who leads the revolt. As armed loyalists surrounded the federation force, Yeltsin's resolve began to crumble, and he agreed to the withdrawal of the stranded troopers. In Moscow the Russian ; parliament delivered its own blow to the president's authority by voting overwhelmingly to veto his emergency decree...
...just goes to show that Cambridge's increasingly metropolitan exterior belies its quirky, small-town interior...