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...refugees have been detained aboard U.S. vessels since trying to flee to south Florida...
...husband, who had been wounded. As the killer approached her, she looked up, then bowed her head, and he shot her. The gunman faced down another patron, Sam Wink, but when a woman nearby tried to race off, he was distracted and fired at her, allowing Wink to flee. "It just seemed like slow motion, and he shot forever," Wink recalled. One woman survived by hiding in a freezer; she was later treated for hypothermia. Food preparer Mark Mathews, 19, escaped by hiding inside an industrial dishwasher. He was so frightened that he did not come out until the following...
...chief money drain has been its Shearson Lehman Bros. investment arm, which suffered mightily from its $962 million takeover of ailing and scandal-ridden E.F. Hutton in 1988. Shearson is just now starting to show signs of recovery from Wall Street's postcrash slump. Amex had hoped to flee the securities business, but after failing to find a buyer for Shearson, Amex injected $1 billion in capital to restructure the firm...
...Wolf was driven to Karlsruhe, seat of the country's high courts. There he was booked for espionage but, astonishingly, was released by a magistrate on $30,000 bail. The magistrate's reasoning: that since Wolf had turned himself in, there was little likelihood that he would try to flee the country. The ruling was promptly appealed by Germany's chief prosecutor, Alexander von Stahl, and Wolf was put in investigative custody. A ruling on the appeal could come this week and set Wolf free...
Last week, the Dean of Yale College Donald Kagan decided to take a one-year leave after he made some particularly controversial remarks about his comrades in the humanities. Of course, Kagan couldn't flee to just any old center for advanced study. He is heading west to Stanford's Center for Advanced Study as well...