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That is certainly true. Five of the nine players in Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's rotation are freshmen or sophomores. But the timeless resort to the inexperience excuse is not the whole story...
...same thing as justifiable homicide. "We are of course pleased that the jury agreed with so much of our evidence," said chief prosecutor Ray Jahn. But U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. instructed the jury to consider self-defense against the government agents as a justification for the Davidians' resort to gunfire, which may explain why only five of the 11 were found guilty of manslaughter. Four were adjudged to be innocent on all counts, and two were convicted of weapons charges. Pressed to explain the jury's decision, Jahn said that perhaps the panel thought the cult members...
Within hours of hearing about the massacre, Clinton asked the P.L.O. and the Israeli government to move to Washington the talks they had been conducting over the past five months in Paris, Cairo and the Egyptian resort town of Taba. He proposed the two sides keep their negotiators in the U.S. capital until they get not just an agreement to agree or an agreement in principle, but an i's-dotted, t's-crossed accord. Said the President: "We must prevent them ((fanatic extremists)) from extinguishing the hopes and aspirations of ordinary people for a life of peaceful existence...
...worst comes to worst, however and none of my friends have seen "The Philadelphia Story" or understand my devotion in general, there's always a last resort...
...siege of Sarajevo began to ease last week in the snows of Pale, a former ski resort overlooking the city. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic walked down the front steps of his headquarters in his putative capital, his shaggy hair glistening with snowflakes, to announce: "We do think the war in Sarajevo is finally over." Beside him, Russian special envoy Vitali Churkin, the catalyst for Karadzic's conversion, nodded his agreement. The Serbs, Churkin said, would withdraw their heavy weapons from the heights around Sarajevo. In return, Russia would contribute several hundred soldiers to peacekeeping forces in the area. There...