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...followed a six-month investigation by the city's sex-crime unit. By early March investigators had gathered enough evidence to install a wiretap and hidden videocamera in his home. On March 25, detectives watched as Savitz offered to pay two 15-year-old boys for oral sex. Police burst into the apartment and took Savitz into custody...
...fact, Germany's initial hesitancy to support the anti-Iraq coalition may have helped produce Bonn's recent burst of assertive energy. The term gulf syndrome is applied to German leaders who, stung by criticism of their early reluctance to support Desert Storm, are determined never again to be thought timid. There is even some concern that Kohl is going too far in that direction. "Except for Hitler you have to go back a long way to find a German head of government who speaks so provocatively and insensitively about the outside world," says Heinrich Jaenecke, a columnist...
Rosa Babayan was in her kitchen fixing tea and slicing bread for breakfast when the first artillery shell of the morning slammed into her concrete apartment building. As she rushed down to the cellar with her family, another shell burst nearby, smashing the windows in the stairwell and sending a shard of glass into her forehead. Ten minutes later, she emerged to survey the damage, daubing the blood from just above her hairline. The corner bedroom of her fourth-floor apartment and all the rooms below it were a heap of rubble and twisted steel...
...burst on the scene in fine fashion," Perkins said of Harvard's success...
...many-sided mood, in part contradictory. After winning office in 1981, the Socialists engaged in a burst of nationalization of industry that proved disastrous; ever since, the party has followed policies so conservative that to many voters it no longer seems to stand for anything. Mitterrand, at 75 and after nearly 11 years in power, has become an august, remote figure (he is sometimes sarcastically called Dieu, or God) and has seemed at times to lose his touch in foreign affairs, to the detriment of French influence. For example, he tried to resist German unification after the Berlin Wall fell...