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...slain gunmen was only 15 years old. The lone survivor, shot in the arm and shoulder, was too seriously wounded to be thoroughly questioned. He gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19, claimed to have been born in Lebanon's Shatila camp, and declared, "I am a Palestine fighter." Blood tests showed that he had taken amphetamines, and police believed that some of the attackers had been high on the drug. Investigators traced a currency-exchange receipt from a Rome bank in the possession of one of the attackers and discovered, as Interpol had predicted, that he had been traveling...
...there was this old boy who was not brain damaged so much as he was impetuous and romantic, the sort of fellow who, but for the grace of poor vision and ten thumbs, a trick knee and an unhealthy dependence on bonded bourbon, might have made a fighter pilot. Lately he has been captivated and obsessed by some of the slickest ads in print, the ones depicting the F-20 Tigershark poised on a liquid mirror out in the Mojave Desert. What is it about this bird, he wonders, that has caused it to be acclaimed in the Atlantic, praised...
Martin--no American test pilot should be allowed to look dissimilar to Roy Martin--unintentionally flatters his charge by asking him whether he was ever a fighter jock. Martin needs this information to guide his presentation. After all, one should never bore the experienced with a nuts-and-bolts primer. The visitor answers negatively, tugs a forelock and asks how fast the F-20 accelerates from zero to 60. (Two and one-half minutes after a cold start, the Tigershark is flying at 38,000 ft., 13 miles from its base, the plane's radar locked in on an intruder...
...leader of the Christian Democrats is Angela Merkel, who, as a protégé of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, is known to be a tough political fighter, if lacking in Schröder's campaign experience. Should her party succeed in September, Merkel, 50, a former physics professor who was raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier...
Before Denis Leary was a fire fighter on FX, he was a cop on ABC. The 19 episodes of The Job fall further on the "-edy" side of dramedy than those of Rescue Me, but their gallows humor is much the same. As Mike McNeil, a boozing, cough-syrup-guzzling, philandering detective, Leary charms through sheer insolence...