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...snap from the center. With women, he holds each face like a ripe melon before planting a kiss. Or he blows kisses. While speaking, he spreads his arms, massages the wedding ring on his left hand, rubs the walnut-size football-championship ring on his right. Being the backup doesn't come easy. At the first post-convention rally, he said he wasn't going to give a speech. Six minutes later, he said, "In closing ..." After two more "In closings," Kemp closed. Dole clapped heartily...
According to HUPD Management Information Systems Coordinator Peggy McNamara, McCarthy called for backup and pursued the suspects on foot...
...unprecedented scale of the event, and the fact that it was carried out by government order, focused public attention on a thorny ethical issue at the heart of IVF. Because the procedure is so hit-or-miss, clinics routinely create backup embryos. But what do they do with the leftovers...
...million fans. In addition, 11,000 National Guard and active-duty military personnel are on Olympics duty, including more than 500 Delta Force and SEAL-Team 6 commandos, airmen from the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and specially trained U.S. Army Rangers to be part of a backup force in case local police or the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team need help. Most of the 500 commandos are on alert at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but a small contingent, armed with hidden weapons, have been patrolling Olympic sites in civilian garb, on the lookout for anything suspicious...
ARRESTED. JIMMY CHAMBERLIN, 32, Smashing Pumpkins rock drummer; on a drug-possession charge; in New York City. Police said backup keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin, 34, died of an apparent heroin overdose in a hotel room the two had shared...