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...this was a different, more insidious brand of terror. While the bomb that destroyed the Murrah federal building was massive and crude, the device sent through the Sacramento mail was small and carefully put together-and designed to blow away a specific human target. It bore the telltale signs of a mysterious terrorist who has been eluding law-enforcement agencies for nearly two decades, in the longest-running unsolved serial-bombing case in fbi history. Soon a letter sent by the culprit to the New York Times confirmed what investigators feared: Murray was the latest victim of the shadowy figure...
...Caruso, he's a fairly crude update too--of Victor Mature, whose role he has taken on. Mature also came off as a self-absorbed egocentric, but that was more an accident of looks than a matter of intent, and he fought against it, sometimes with self-parody. We will not live to see the day Caruso sends himself up. For he seems to believe inwardness is a guarantee of integrity, a signal that a whole lot of serious acting--too fine for him to share fully with us--is going on inside his head. Me? I'll have...
...Grace board to examine the separate issue of whether the chairman's perks should have been disclosed to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the midst of that inquiry, Tyler was diverted by reports that Bolduc, who is married and has four children, had a reputation for crude behavior and lewd come-ons with female colleagues...
...says she also witnessed crude behavior on his part with other female employees. One instance occurred in the early 1980s, when the woman says she saw Bolduc greet a female colleague whom he barely knew by pulling her into an unwilling embrace when she moved to shake his hand. Even more embarrassing, says the manager, was a scene just last year after a business meeting. "On the way out of the building, as he was saying goodbyes, Bolduc turned to one woman employee and instead of shaking her hand, pulled her toward him and stuck his tongue into...
...only was Christopher loudly opposing the deal, but Alfonse D'Amato, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, was using it to escalate his two-month-old crusade for a virtual halt to all American commerce with Iran. While U.S. oil firms have long been barred from buying Iranian crude oil, their foreign subsidiaries are free to purchase it and sell it abroad...