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...quite. For crucial days, Russian officials had rejected Western offers of help, including the dispatch of U.S., French, British and Norwegian rescue equipment. Then on Wednesday, Putin ordered Admiral Vladimir Kuroyedov, the navy commander in chief, to accept help. The Russians promptly invited Norway and Britain to send equipment, but by then it was already a near certainty that any survivors would perish before the rescuers could reach the area. Indeed, shortly before the British team arrived on Saturday, the Northern Fleet commander said, "The critical line of survivability has been closed...
...retreating rebel soldiers, Tavington comes riding up to Martin's plantation at the head of a cavalry troop. Insouciantly, even rather jauntily, he orders all the Americans--most of them wounded--to be shot, the plantation fired, and for good measure, he marches Gabriel (by this time a dispatch rider for the valiant Colonel Harry Burwell, played by Chris Cooper) off to be hanged. When one of Martin's other sons tries to rescue his brother, he is coldly murdered...
Indeed, much of the ecstasy taking--and the law enforcement under way to end it--has been accompanied by breathlessness. "It appears that the ecstasy problem will eclipse the crack-cocaine problem we experienced in the late 1980s," a cop told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In April, 60 Minutes II prominently featured an Orlando, Fla., detective dolorously noting that "ecstasy is no different from crack, heroin." On the other side of the spectrum, at ecstasy.org you can find equally bloated praise of the drug. "We sing, we laugh, we share/ and most of all, we care," gushes an awful poem...
...range--a bunch of guys at mythical Ithaca College snail-mail the wrong videotape. They think they are sending the one in which Josh (Breckin Meyer) expresses his moony affection for his lifelong girlfriend Tiffany (Rachel Blanchard), who is studying veterinary medicine in faraway Austin, Texas. What they actually dispatch is hard evidence that he has strayed with Beth (Amy Smart...
With a physical style remnant of the '80s Detroit squads, the Knicks set out to dispatch the defending champion Bulls after beating the Pistons in five games in the first round. The Bulls had gone 67-15 in the regular season and were the prohibitive favorites to repeat as champs in the postseason. The Knicks, refusing to let themselves roll over and give up, stretched Chicago to only one of two seventh games it would play in its six championship years under the guidance of Patrick Ewing, John Starks, and Anthony Mason...