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...Darn," said President Bush last week to express his indignation about Saddam Hussein's mistreatment of his U.S. hostages. "The American flag is flying over the Kuwait embassy, and our people inside are being starved by a brutal dictator. Do you think I'm concerned about it? You're darn right I am. And what am I going to do about it? Let's just wait and see. Because I have had it with that kind of treatment of Americans...
...Keep That Darn Flag in Your Pocket?: A forgettable aspect of the Crimson's performance Saturday was the sloppy collection of penalties--12 in total. The infractions, including several personal fouls or facemask violations, cost Harvard 95 total yards...
...unconventional, so is the man. Horner, 44, teaches at Montana State University and is curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, but he has no knack for academic decorum (administrators at the museum wish the rubber stamp could say, I DON'T GIVE A DARN WHAT KILLED THE DINOSAURS). He disdains intellectual showboating, describing his own tyrannosaurus as a "media specimen," valuable mainly because it will bring the fang-and-claw set into the museum to see really important stuff, like duckbills tending their offspring. His manner is casual and laconic, which fits with the scraggly...
...taking it." Elsewhere he stops at an unusual fossil spotted the night before by a graduate student out fishing, who excavated it part way with a daredevil spoon intended for catching bass, not dinosaurs. "It's a metatarsal," Horner says, completing the job. "Ornithomimid. And a darn nice one at that...
...bandit will have none of it. "That's none of your business," he sneers. "I say he's going there, and there ain't a darn thing you can do about...