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...midst of a baseball strike and hockey lockout, college hoops has come through, adding an extra dose of sunshine to bleak winter days. The proverbial knight in shining armor has come wearing the maroon and white of UMass and the blue and white of UConn...
...gone on longer than Russian officials anticipated, although they attributed the delays to efforts to limit civilian casualties. (Several international military analysts said Russian troops' lack of battle-readiness was the real reason.) There was also no sign Russia was nearing its goal of encircling Grozny with troops and armor. Still, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, in a message broadcast to the Chechen people, called on rebels to give up and vowed that Chechnya "will once again become a full-fledged region of the Russian Federation...
...land-locked region. Meanwhile, Dudayev's opponents sent sophisticated jet fighters -- planes that could never have been procured or even operated without Russian help -- to bomb military bases and the airport in Grozny. To show that Yeltsin really meant business, 30 Antonov An-12 transport planes with soldiers and armor were deployed in the neighboring ethnic republic of North Ossetia...
Even the charge that Hanselman couldn't be responsive to student interests since he now lives off-campus with his new wife didn't make a noticeable dent in his armor...
...question about a bomb and suddenly he's Mr. Wizard, spouting off details about detonation wires and weird timers. He seems to be in constant analysis mode. And the gear the LAPD folks wear is really cool--black and futuristic, a cross between battle armor and the suits in "Dune." They look like they can handle anything...