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...sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole sweet irony of their getting stung after initiating a sting...
While the minuscule monsters have traditionally attacked only people who stepped on their turf, they've recently brought their mayhem indoors as well. Says Marion Bernhardt, 78, of West Palm Beach, Florida, who last year survived an ant assault in a hospital bed: "I was stung all up and down my legs, and I had welts all over them and on my side. They burned for days. I never had such an experience in all my life." She was lucky. At least 50 people have died in recent years from allergic reactions to fire-ant stings...
Pittsburgh's chances for the No. 1 playoff seed were stung by a 7-2 loss to Washington. Page...
...Hepburn died in 1993. In March, Givenchy showed his final fall collection in Paris before retiring. The collection was both meticulous and harmonious, reflecting the standards of luxe and craft he has always pursued. Many of 1995's fashion heroes, including Lagerfeld and Versace, took their inspiration from Givenchy. Stung by the consequences of forays into ugliness, they turned to a designer who has always brought grace and charm alive...
Powell is so free he could even run as a Democrat, but if it comes, a challenge to Clinton in the primaries seems more likely from other quarters. Bob Kerrey, whom Clinton beat in the 1992 Democratic primaries, stung his former rival last November when he declared the G.O.P. stampede a ``severe, sharp and obvious repudiation of the President.'' House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt upstaged Clinton's call for a middle-class tax cut by offering his own plan only two days before the President proposed his--and Gephardt rubbed it in when he said he'd take his orders...