Word: arresting
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...people. Unfortunately, sex on the Net turns on a lot of people too. I know. I've been covering sex on the networks for nearly 10 years. Strictly as a professional, of course. I've seen things that would make William Burroughs blush and send Catharine MacKinnon into cardiac arrest. I've had a chance to order whips and chains by the gross, drop in on group sex and download more explicit pictures than are displayed in a decade's worth of Hustler. In one day, I've read more intimate confessions than are found in a year's worth...
...York City. Master of the "New York game," with its asphalt-playground emphasis on defense, passing and team strategy, Holman engineered City College of New York's unique twin National Invitation Tournament and ncaa championships in the 1949-50 season. A year later, the triumph was tarnished by the arrest of several of Holman's players in a point-shaving scandal...
...nonalignment abroad and democracy at home-but discord within his government led General Ne Win to seize power in 1962. U Nu proclaimed himself Prime Minister of a "parallel government" when pro-democracy activity pushed aside Ne Win in 1988, but the military quickly placed U Nu under house arrest. Released in 1992, he spent his last years in seclusion...
...which peaked in 1992, was only the beginning. Before long he had expanded to five other cities, as far east as Birmingham, Alabama, and Atlanta. It was a cross-country advance that was halted only by an intense investigation coordinated by the FBI over five states, which included the arrest this month of a fugitive who had been on the run since September 1993. The so-called Eight Trey Gangster Crips network is estimated to have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according...
...five days after sending troops and tanks to occupy 18 villages in Chiapas that had been controlled by Zapatista rebels, Zedillo abruptly called off the offensive. He ordered the soldiers to do nothing that might lead to shooting, suspended efforts to catch rebel leaders for whom he had caused arrest warrants to be issued and offered the Zapatistas amnesty and political negotiations if they would lay down their arms. He even went along with one of the rebels' prime demands: the resignation of Chiapas Governor Eduardo Robledo, who the Zapatistas contend had won his post in a fraudulent election...