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...prayer at the edge of a South Dakota pasture. They bless themselves with sage smoke and thank the spirit of the buffalo that is about to give up its life. A few bison look up from their grazing as a pickup truck churns slowly across the field. Then the crack of a rifle scatters the herd: Rocky Afraid-of-Hawk drops a yearling bull with one clean shot. The teenage warriors, dressed in Fila sneakers and No Fear sweatshirts, scramble in for a closer look as the older men skin the carcass. Later the meat will be hung...
...California Rep. Bob Dornan have never shied from describing the Clinton White House as a den full of drug-using "hippies," and now they have more ammunition. House investigator probing "Filegate" on Wednesday released documents in which a former security official claims that some White House employees had used crack, cocaine and hallucinogens before starting their jobs in 1993. The Secret Service denied them passes, the official said, only to be promptly overruled by the Administration. According to an FBI transcript, Arnold Cole, a former supervisor of the Secret Service White House control operations, said the Service was concerned drug...
...bond traders, that sounded like the crack of doom. They bid prices down so rapidly that the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds rose to 7.1%, up 6.9% on the day and more than a point above the start of the year (bond prices and yields always move in opposite directions). Stock prices got dragged down too; the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 115 points, to a close...
...Internet domain name, a small price to pay for creating an official address in cyberspace. Even so, more than 9,000 registrants have apparently failed to pay their dues to InterNIC's Network Solutions, which manages the huge database. In the past few weeks, InterNIC has started to crack down on the delinquents, closing their accounts until they lay their cash on the table. Below, some of the offending sites--including many that are clearly bogus--as compiled by Mike Walsh of Internet Info...
...usual, his eyes are on the future. "All of this, right back through there," he says, his hand traversing the horizon from the CNN Center-dominated southwest skyline up north past the big red Nike swoosh and into the northwest wasteland, that crumbling welter of faded-brick buildings and crack-vial sidewalks whose putative renewal could turn out to be these Games' most enduring local legacy. "This," the prophet says with unfathomable certitude, "is where it's all going to grow...