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Until now, fear of a devastating domestic backlash has restrained Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri from cracking down on her nation's increasingly vocal and active supporters of Osama bin Laden. Now, she may have no choice but to bite the bullet. The weekend bomb blast in Bali that killed 189, mostly foreign revelers at two local nightclubs could force Megawati to choose between Washington and the mainstream Muslim political parties on whose support she has been partly dependent...
Fitzpatrick, showing great anticipation and vision as he split three Cornell defenders with a third-quarter bullet to Carl Morris that was good for 13 yards and a Harvard first down...
Unfortunately, the common .223 could have been used with a long list of rifles or assault weapons. But the bullet offered clues. Because the police did not find casings at most of the crime scenes, they suspect that the killer fired from a vehicle. (The shells fly a long way, and the shooter would have had little time to retrieve them.) And since a long gun was used, there's a chance that witnesses may turn up. While some officers thought that the style and accuracy of the shootings suggested a marksman, Coulson says modern gun sights make "a shot...
...back the fans. Ferrari - which spends an estimated $390 million a year to win - and the other big teams, Williams and McLaren, will resist change. But since the Prost team went bust last year, and Orange-sponsored Arrows is likely to follow suit, Formula One has to bite the bullet, now. Archive: Schumy the Great THE BOURSE Insolvency, She Wrote Deutsche Bank paid €667 million for a 40.3% share in Axel Springer, Europe's top publisher, once owned by fallen media baron Leo Kirch. The bank then sold 10.4% of the stake to Friede Springer, giving her control. Turning...
...from his roommate who was a rower. “They just have sentimental value since they were a gift,” Ernesto says, and that is why he made sure he got them back from his girlfriend after they broke up. “I bit the bullet and made her send them back,” he says. “She raised hell about it—but I got them back...