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Earlier in the summer the Western allies had warned unequivocally that a Serb attack like the one last Monday would provoke a massive response. But previous NATO bluster had led Serbs and Muslims alike to conclude that the alliance was all bark and no bite. Even after the shell had hit Sarajevo, vacillation appeared to be the likely outcome as the U.N. insisted on sifting the evidence to make sure the Bosnian Serbs were indeed the culprits. Then bad weather and a protective shift of British peacekeepers further delayed the nato attacks. As the hours ticked away, it seemed...
Phase 2 or 3, depending on where Fuhrman slips into the lineup, will involve Bundy neighbors who may have heard dogs bark at different times or can otherwise cast doubt on the murder "time line" created by the prosecution. Again, one of the witnesses Cochran brandished so proudly in opening arguments, Rosa Lopez, will probably be dropped. Her videotaped testimony is an embarrassment, and the defense knows the prosecution has other witnesses available to discredit...
...were organic, a delicate ecology of microchips and electric pulsing code. He's put a word-processing program and some bland communications software on it. Nothing more. While every new, cool program comes to him (laser-'em-up games, flight sims, goofy utilities that promise to make his computer bark like a Schnauzer), he refuses to put any of them on his hard drive for fear that doing so would expose it to grave biological risk...
...Yard's elm trees are infected with Dutch Elm Disease, a naturally-occurring disease transferred from Holland by the elm bark beetle, according to an employee with Hartney/Greymont Tree and Landscape, the company doing the tree replacement...
...character vaporized and sucked away by the office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal Resolution Trust bonds back to the very failed savings and loans into which the government is trying to pump life-giving formaldehyde...