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...mountain town whose fall would force its 10,000 to 16,000 residents to seek shelter in other government-held towns. Reports Barnes: "Muslim army units -- about 3,000 men -- have escaped from Srebrenica and are trying to make their way inside Zepa. They've hit the Serb right flank badly. About 1,100 are already inside bolstering the defenses, and another 1,900 are making it through. They're really causing havoc in Serb-held territory: they've cut the Serbian road to Pale, and cut off the Serbian capital from the rest of the country." The Bosnian government...
Castro gave him a pair of gloves and ordered two young Marines to flank him with their bodies in order to keep him as warm as possible and shield him from the 45-degree wind whipping through the portals through which the helicopter's machine guns protruded. One of those Marines was Paul Bruce of Lebanon, Maine, a 20-year-old lance corporal who could see that the young pilot was in emotional tatters. "When he first got on the helo, he was sobbing and weeping," said Bruce. "It was more than just a tear or two. His chest...
...United States," said Ted Kennedy of the Senate Labor Committee, which will vote on his nomination within the next several weeks. "But he might have to be confirmed on a voice vote at 5 o'clock in the afternoon" to protect Republicans who support him from their right flank. "It's a triumph," says Mike McCurry, White House press secretary. "The fact that he's gone from dead-on-arrival to having a chance at confirmation is a stunning turnaround. Maybe every once in a while the good guy wins...
Breathe easy: the antler chandeliers aren't going anywhere. The bulbbedecked horns will flank an enormous staircase which will split the Great Hall (that's the main dining room to us) in two in order to provide more office space. "You'll have a remembrance and understanding of the past life [of the building]," says Buckley of the new design. Goody Clancy, the project architect, has planned the renovation so that "from the first floor, you'll be able to see what the hall once was." As for the chandeliers, "It's going to be a one-of-a-kind...
Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...