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Leave it to the administration to shoot down the prospects of fun. Eighty-eight first-year Assassin players will have to find amusement elsewhere, thanks to an edict from the Dean of Students' office...
Billionaire cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed in a rooftop shoot-out with soldiers and police in Medellin, Colombia. Police found his hideout by tracing a phone call he made to his wife and two children the day after his birthday. The death of Escobar is not expected to reduce the flow of cocaine to the U.S., since his influence on the drug trade significantly diminished during his 16 months as a fugitive...
Private forecasters too "have been burned with this stop-and-go recovery and are understandably reluctant to stick their necks out," ways William Dunkelberg, president of the National Association of Business Economists. "They would much rather see the economy exceed their projections than shoot too high...
...game, which has been played for many years in upperclass houses and student organizations, students stalk and shoot each other with plastic dart guns. The last person who avoids being shot wins the game...
...line that separates the mordant from the maudlin. On the one hand, there's November, a bitter hymn to the month that "only believes in a pile of dead leaves/ And a moon that's the color of bone." On the other, there's I'll Shoot the Moon, in which Kathchen, daydreaming about her lover, vows to "be the pennies on your eyes" and "build a nest in your hair...