Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lebed's meditation before St. George's iconostasis may have helped. When he returned to Moscow the next day, he carried with him an agreement to stop the shooting in Chechnya, disengage troops on the ground and set up a conciliation commission. He swaggered a bit, claiming he had a secret plan to end the Chechnya problem for good but had to talk with President Boris Yeltsin before making it public. And he boldly demanded that Yeltsin get rid of the Moscow official he blamed for Russia's latest bloody disaster in Chechnya, where a week of brutal combat...
...jump. Someone suggested that a rabbit ran out and spooked Buck. I thought it could have been the shadows." It was what riders call a "dirty stop"; it occurred without warning. When he went over, he took the bridle off Buck's face. "I mean, the bridle, the bit, the reins, everything. I went over his ears like a football through the goalposts and ended up on the other side of the jump. Buck went back to the barn with no bridle. And I landed straight on my head because my hands were entangled in the bridle and I couldn...
...computer consultant she met while working in a bookstore and living with her former fiance, Michael Antonucci. (The Carter Center announced a "postponement" of that wedding a month before it was to take place.) "I think they complement each other," says Wentzel's father James, who was "a bit shocked" when his son started dating a President's daughter. "Our son's very outgoing and people-oriented, and Amy's quiet and smart." They plan to marry in September...
...pairings are not necessarily entertaining in and of themselves. Host Bill Maher, TV's nimblest conversationalist, asked his Tuesday panel what party Jesus would join if were he alive today and elicited this straight-faced response from North: "I think Jesus would like to see us have a little bit left in our pockets, so that we could take the action to help the poor rather than have the government pretend...
...former Clinton business partner to two years in jail for misusing a $300,000 loan obtained in the name of her Master Marketing advertising company from a lender backed by the Small Business Administration. "The judge was obviously more sympathetic to Tucker than to Susan McDougal, which seems a bit unusual," says TIME's Jef McAllister. "One would think that a sitting governor would act with more malice aforethought than Susan McDougal." McDougal was also ordered to repay the loan with interest and a $5,000 fine. After the sentence was handed down, she gave a tearful, two-minute speech...