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...government. President Reagan, to his credit, even tightened the ban, dropping the word political and adding that nobody "acting on behalf of" the U.S.--such as contract killers--could assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
After sophomore Eddie Jones (197 lbs.) failed to pass a pre-match skin test, Harvard was unable to bump up its reserve 197 pounder, junior P.J. Jones (no relation), because he was already slated to compete at 184 lbs., forcing the Crimson to forfeit the 197-lb. match...
...Which brings us to the big caveat: Just as housing has taken up much of the economic slack for the past two years, both as a comforting investment for fretting consumers and a driver of consumer spending itself, a big bump elsewhere in the economy in 2003 could be housing's downfall. If stocks roar back this spring, capital inflows could steal from the bond market, pushing up long-term interest rates. Or Alan Greenspan and the Fed could do the same to short-term rates, as a way to hit the brakes on a recovery that is heating...
...process that causes roads to buckle in developed parts of the world. According to lead author Mark Kessler, it all starts with a field strewn randomly with rocks lying on top of soil. No field is perfectly flat, of course, and when the soil freezes in winter, any slight bump expands, pushing the rocks up and to the side. When things thaw out, though, the bump subsides straight down, so the rocks stay where they are. Next winter, the bump expands again--but since it's wider than it was the first time around, it expands even more, pushing...
...life. "Montmartre is simply lousy with whores," he noted on his first Sunday in town. "They sit in the cafés and beckon to you from the window, or bunk smack up against you in the street, and invite you to come along." You're more likely to bump into a tourist in Montmartre today, but Miller would recognize those streetwalkers in other parts of the city. After dark, the ringroad that circles Paris is dotted with very young girls in very short skirts and very high heels, showcasing their wares in the headlights of passing cars. Depending...