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...often go running late at night while carrying bolt-cutters," Allen said. "And I find screaming 'I didn't do it; I didn't do it' to be an excellent motivational tool while I exercise...
...truth is, the evening was a triumph for Kaplan, whose infatuation with the Second Symphony dates to a chance encounter with the music in 1965. As a young economist working on the American Stock Exchange, he attended a performance led by Leopold Stokowski. "I felt like a bolt of lightning had gone through me," he recalls. "The music just seemed to wrap its arms around me and never...
...Marie Provaznikova, leader of the Czech women's contingent, simply refused to return to Czechoslovakia. The drama will be in the number of Cubans or the names. Is it possible that Felix Savon, the great heavyweight boxer, or a flame-throwing pitcher named Omar Luis or even Linares might bolt before receiving his gold medal? "Anything is possible," says El Gordo. "Something will happen...
...Dole may be forced to choose between yielding some speaking time at the Republican National Convention to Pat Buchanan or watching Buchanan bolt the party to run at the top of an independent ticket. At least that's what Buchanan would have him believe. Three weeks ago, conservative organizer Howard Phillips courted Buchanan during a four-hour dinner to join his U.S. Taxpayers Party, and Buchanan seemed only slightly interested. But Buchanan aides are giving that option a much closer look since Dole began watering down the G.O.P.'s antiabortion plank. Phillips tells TIME he was contacted last week...
Lugar looks ready to bolt as he steps into a dingy workingman's cafe in Kragujevac. The man who helped arrange the meeting, a shark-faced lawyer in a purple suit, nods in reassurance, but Lugar stares truculently at two TIME journalists, unsure if we are who we say we are. His jacket stretches tightly across his burly chest, barely hiding a bulletproof vest; he keeps a hand on a briefcase that contains a pistol. He has good reason to take precautions. Since he returned from Bosnia, he has been shot at twice, bashed with an iron bar and slammed...