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...pulp out of live-in boyfriend Darren Silver--and she didn't need a crowbar or an accomplice to do the job. According to Silver, the couple had just returned from an excursion to a video-poker arcade when Harding attacked, "hooking me like Mike Tyson." Silver attempted to flee on his motorcycle, only to run face first into a hubcap Harding had hurled, Frisbee-style, in his direction. Police on the scene reported that both Harding and Silver were intoxicated. No surprise there. Harding was released and has pleaded innocent to all charges. A judge ordered her to stay...
...here's a question for the British government: Nobody can blame desperate souls for trying to flee Afghanistan's medieval Taliban regime any way they can, but granting 19 hijackers asylum in Britain would undermine international efforts to curb terrorism. The hijacking drama came to a peaceful end Wednesday night as the hijackers allowed the last remaining passengers to leave, and then walked off the plane and into police custody. Despite a call early on in the ordeal for the release of an Afghan opposition leader, the hijackers had made no specific demands after forcing the Ariana Boeing...
...abortion-protesters amendment, introduced by New York senator Chuck Schumer, made for some fireworks when Al Gore, whose history of wavering on abortion is a vulnerable point in his quest for the Oval Office, decided to flee the campaign trail in hopes of casting the tiebreaking vote in favor of the measure. Determined not to allow Gore to grandstand on the issue, 35 Republicans joined all of the Senate Democrats in passing the amendment...
Gandhi arrived in South Africa in 1893 at the age of 23. Within a week he collided head on with racism. His immediate response was to flee the country that so degraded people of color, but then his inner resilience overpowered him with a sense of mission, and he stayed to redeem the dignity of the racially exploited, to pave the way for the liberation of the colonized the world over and to develop a blueprint for a new social order...
...than frontal assault. Make slow advances under cover of heavy guns and bombardment. Avoid close encounters with a lightly armed but fearsome enemy. Applying these principles in their current campaign, which began in late September, Moscow's generals aimed to grind down the rebel force until the remnants would flee back into the mountains and then keep them there, where they would gradually wither under the onslaught of winter and warplanes. It seemed to be working...