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...cheerleader. According to Salem prosecutors, her jealous 16-year-old ex-boyfriend slashed her throat, stabbed her repeatedly, and then enlisted the help of his friend, throwing her lifeless, weighted body into a pond, laughing the whole time. "Sucks to be you, Amy," he reportedly said as she sank...
Even France's famous "civilizing mission" to the rest of the world has come under question. French policy toward the Arab countries, supposedly an example of Paris' understanding approach to Third World aspirations, sank practically without a trace in the quicksand of the gulf crisis. Says Gilles Martinet, an ex-ambassador with close links to the Socialists: "For most of our statesmen, whether they belonged to the left or the right, France was always strong, feared, respected, admired and envied -- until the gulf war taught us otherwise...
...might easily have been as overbearing -- and as deadly -- as some of their interpretations are. It is not, though, and anyone with a sense of recent film history can see Thelma & Louise in the honorable line of movies whose makers, without quite knowing what they were doing, sank a drill into what appeared to be familiar American soil and found that they had somehow tapped into a wild- rushing subterranean stream of inchoate outrage and deranged violence. Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, Dirty Harry and Fatal Attraction -- all these movies began as attempts to vary and freshen traditional generic...
Kohl has been criticized for timid handling of Germany's part in the gulf war and apparent callousness about the plight of eastern Germans, 21% of whom are effectively unemployed. But it was his turnabout on taxes that sank his party's fortunes in western Germany, where three-quarters of the voters live. He promised last year that unification could be financed without new taxes, but the immense and growing costs have instead forced him to raise taxes. As of July 1, the average German will pay 7.5% more...
...been accused of engineering a bold scheme in which he loaded the 12,000-ton Panama- registered Lucona with scrap metal, insured the cargo for $18.5 million as "nuclear processing equipment," then had the ship blown up after it set sail from Italy. Six people died when the vessel sank off the Maldive Islands in January...