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...other hand, senior Melanie Allen was a literal no-show at Yale. The reserve forward, as far as anyone can tell, has gone AWOL. At this point, it would be very surprising to see her in a Harvard uniform again...
...refugee camps were "out of control," said it would withdraw about 400 soldiers who have been pilfering Rwandan refugees' food and possessions in the border town of Goma. Thousands of Rwandans in the Goma camps protested Thursday against the soldiers, many of whom were unpaid for months and went AWOL to Goma to seek their fortune. About 60 miles to the south today, some 50,000 people reportedly massed across the border from the Zairian city of Bukavu, underscoring relief workers' fears of a new exodus when French troops leave southwest Rwanda in 10 days.RETURN OF THE KING? King Kigeli...
...vision of love as vulnerable, menaced by authority, entered his work early -- and was fixed there, apparently, by an alarming moment when the Australian military police burst in on him and his future wife Yvonne after he went AWOL from army camp. It finds its most complete form in Boyd's painting of Adam and Eve, 1947-48, their bodies like a pair of white tubers, embracing in an Eden that is also the Australian bush, while a huge patriarchal angel glares inquisitively at them from behind a tree and a curly horned ram -- the libido in Boyd's iconography...
...TIME WHEN THE ENVIRONmental movement seems in desperate need of a champion, the most likely candidates have gone AWOL. Vice President Al Gore, the author of Earth in the Balance, has strayed to other issues as he tries to keep up with Hillary and the pack of FOBs in the hyperactive Clinton Administration. Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland devoted much of the 1980s to helping develop a global ecological agenda, but her reputation has plummeted since Norway resumed commercial whaling in defiance of an international...
...past few weeks, however, Sessions has managed only to worsen the situation. The latest agency nickname for him is "H.G.," for "His Goofiness." Sessions has managed to be AWOL from his command post during crisis moments at the agency. Last month he went to San Antonio, Texas, for his son's wedding, an understandable absence but irritating to colleagues since it occurred just as crucial decisions were being made to arrest suspects in planned bombing attacks on New York City. The following weekend, as Clinton weighed evidence gathered by the FBI and the CIA in his decision to attack Iraq...