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...give Mayor Tom Bradley no authority over the city's top cop, who can be fired only for corruption or criminal behavior. During his 14 years as chief, the controversial Gates had set the tenor of a macho, take- no-nonsense police force. Despite cries for his resignation, Gates clung to his job -- and only reluctantly agreed to retire at the end of June. It was too late. On April 29, 3 1/2 hours after the verdict in the King case was announced, Gates left his office at about 6:30 p.m. to drive 11 miles to attend a small...
...ones that were missing. Given the haste with which Coleman would have had to act, he might have been expected to leave telling signs behind. A fingerprint. A footprint. At the very least, there should have been traces of the mud and water that would have clung to his pants after fording waters 10-in. deep. No such evidence was offered...
...Bush regularly trumpets democracy's virtues, but his actions routinely serve order and stability. Following the gulf war, the U.S. virtually "owned" Kuwait, but Washington did little to ensure democracy's ascendancy in the emirate. Yugoslavia is disintegrating, but Bush has yet to recognize Slovenia and Croatia. The President clung to Mikhail Gorbachev to the end, and viewed Yeltsin as the problem rather than the solution even after Yeltsin won Russia's first democratic election. Clinton's views are exactly opposite. Democracy, he says, offers the best hope for stability, even if moving toward representative government generates short-term disorder...
...week, Nixon introduced Bush with a flourish, declaring he was "without question . . . the best qualified to lead the United States and the free world in the years ahead." Bush returned the embrace: "It's a wonderful privilege for me to be introduced by you." In his speech, Bush clung to his belief that he did not have the money to do all that Nixon suggested. Thus was confrontation turned to advantage -- for both men. Nixon, at 79, got to dominate the world stage for a day, reminding people of the great drama in Russia and its importance to Americans, offering...
Heading into the third period, Harvard clung to a 3-2 lead, courtesy of goals by freshman forward Steve Martins (2) and senior defender Rich Defreitas...