Word: batons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harding and her confederacy of dunces thought they could eliminate the Olympic figure-skating competition with one thwack of a metal baton on Nancy Kerrigan's leg. They would then skate to riches, and nobody would know better. In fact, everybody went to jail but Harding, who plea-bargained her way to probation...
...White House aide talked happily of "moving into the end game of the transition to the Aristide government" as if all the troops were about to come home. "We are at a point where the baton is ready to be passed." In fact, if anything was ending it was only the first -- and easiest -- phase of the operation. Now the U.S. faces the more difficult challenge of making Haiti safe for returning President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, expected to arrive by the end of the week. The U.S. had counted on leaving most of the dirty work of policing a volatile...
...optimistic messages were also intended to speed Aristide's return to Haiti. The U.S. military has not figured out precisely how to protect him from his enemies without at the same time becoming Haiti's palace guard. But ready or not, the figurative baton could be thrust into Aristide's hands as early as this Saturday, when the remaining military rulers, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, have agreed to step down. Last week the Haitian parliament approved an amnesty bill that will permit Aristide to grant the generals pardons as sweeping or narrow as he chooses...
...tried and found guilty under the new federal law protecting access to abortion clinics. Hill, who, witnesses say, shot and killed a doctor and his bodyguard outside a Pensacola clinic, could get a life sentence on this conviction; he also faces state capital-murder charges. Meanwhile, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a man picking up his wife from an abortion clinic was charged with attempted murder after allegedly scuffling with and firing a shot at an antiabortion demonstrator. The protester was unhurt...
...Haydn transformed Yoo completely into conductor, but without a podium or baton. Lin, Yoo and most of the players stood on equal ground as Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies accompanied on harpsichord...