Word: dispatches
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Well people, this is my final dispatch before the big 25th. As you know, I'll soon be turning over the class notes to the always capable TWIGG NELSON, so all future letters and cards should go to him c/o his ashram. In the meantime, I want to thank all the folks at the Alumni Bulletin who made this job such a snap...
McGee knew what he was doing. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which broke the story, state records show that he tested positive in 1992 and was told the result. "He didn't care about spreading the virus," says Beth Meyerson of the Missouri Department of Health. "It was a clear case of power." Meyerson says that in Missouri, which closely tracks people with HIV, fewer than 1% knowingly infect others. But one heartless player can mean a public health disaster...
...with slashed budgets leading to fewer launches and worried whispers in the international community that even those missions were dangerously underfinanced. Lately, however, Russia has been funneling all its space resources into the launch of its Mars '96 probe, an unmanned spacecraft designed to orbit the Red Planet, dispatch a quartet of landers to the surface and, perhaps most important, return the country to the spacefaring pre-eminence it once enjoyed...
...Goldman's mother Sharon Rufo, told the Los Angeles Times, pre-gag order, "The jurors don't care about the minutiae; they care about the essence." That is why the moment that Simpson struggled to get the glove on was so pivotal. The plaintiffs' team has already tried to dispatch that one, bringing on a glove expert to testify that it shrank but looked like the same dark leather glove Simpson was wearing in a picture. And that is what makes the current discrepancies surrounding a pair of Italian shoes even more significant...
Under the assault, Clinton quickly decided he could not refuse to join in. Even then, however, it was not clear what the interventionists were volunteering to do. They agreed to dispatch armed troops, yes, but before committing itself fully, Washington wanted to make strict, limited rules and stick to them. The list of not-to-dos ran long. U.S. soldiers would be there for four months only. "We are not planning a mission to go in and disarm the factions," said Defense Secretary William Perry, "or to separate military from refugees." The troops would not protect aid convoys, not conduct...