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...Justice, Thornburgh and his aides take a dim view as well of Von Raab's "Operation Paladin" plan to offer multimillion-dollar bounties for drug kingpins. Officials say Von Raab is "grandstanding" and fear bounties would invite international kidnaping...
...Tyson's next," Foreman bellowed, arms outstretched, to the crowd. Every old man in the dim arena choked at the visage in the crimson robe -- a middle- aged Rocky in their midst. Around the stands signs shot up, echoing TYSON'S NEXT. In the dressing room Foreman chortled, "Cooper tried to run, but the ring was too small. They're all thinking, 'What's George going...
...none of these attacks has *** Harvard to make any significant security innovations. While the addition of lights to the Yard is under review by a "security committee" and subject to approval by the Historical Commission, the Yard remains, physically, the same dim and dangerous area of frequent attacks...
...epic history richly fulfills that promise. This saga of revolt and revenge may at first seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm of retribution...
Henderson is an attractive, birdlike woman, small-boned, with coppery hair tufted up at the sides. She has been helping people look better since that dim era (the 1970s) when only politicians and models had images to worry about. Henderson started out in England, where she "did her postgraduate work in movement and body language" and worked in modeling. When she married an Atlanta physician and came to this country, she discovered the thriving all- American business of image consulting for ordinary people. It struck Henderson that all the signals about class, education and authority conveyed by speech in England...