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Even men with character flaws as deep as the Grand Canyon feel entitled to hurl the insult. When Mayor Marion Barry was caught smoking crack in a sting operation mounted by the male-dominated FBI, his first reaction was, "Bitch set me up." On the famed 911 tape, O.J. reportedly shouted at Nicole, "I don't want you in my house, you bitch...
...crack special teams were deployed first to seize Chechen President Jokhar - Dudayev or immobilize street commanders. Some Russian infantrymen drove into Grozny in long columns of armored personnel carriers, but instead of charging out to fight off the Chechen guerrillas, they stayed buttoned up inside their vehicles. The Chechens used their antitank grenades to blast the Russian armor from the rear and from above. Sometimes they simply blew treads off the lead and last tanks, immobilizing the column. When frightened young Russians climbed out to flee, they were mowed down with rifle fire or captured...
...crack French team ended a deadly hijacking...
...group of loyal aides and a Security Council, dominated by the "power ministers," such men as Defense Minister Pavel Grachev and Interior Minister Victor Yerin. Some veteran Moscow watchers are reminded of the last year of the Mikhail Gorbachev era, when the father of glasnost and perestroika tried to crack down on independence-minded Lithuania. Others watch Yeltsin take the lead, then fade, and recall Leonid Brezhnev's lingering, fatal lassitude...
Clifford M. Ginn '98 of Maine said he didn't crack a textbook during his break...