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...Thursday, there were reports that the armed forces of Egypt and neighboring Libya, a bitter foe of Sadat's, had been placed on alert, and that rioting by Muslim fundamentalists had broken out in the southern Egyptian city of Asyut, long a center of religious militancy. The clashes in Asyut, in which both police and protesters used firearms, causing hundreds of casualties, did not subside until army reinforcements were brought in. But there were no mass arrests within the army as a result of the assassination, and the country as a whole remained quiet...
Bret Schundler, now the coach at Winthrop, remembers agreeing not to hit his limping foe. "But then the guy decided one play to rush, I had no choice but to block," Schundler said. Not a pretty sight...
...Leonard is also an awesome finisher, a man who exploits without compunction an opponent's weakness, punches mercilessly when he sees an opportunity to put his foe down, and turns loose a remorseless killer instinct. That seriousness of purpose seemed to deepen last year after Leonard suffered the only loss of his professional career, to Roberto Duran. At their rematch five months later, Leonard was a study in cold fury...
...Wisconsin's Democratic Congressman William Kastenmeier, the enactment of even one measure that would cripple the Supreme Court in even one area would be a dangerous precedent-an invitation to Congress to turn itself into a sort of Supersupreme Court over the Supreme Court. Says Kastenmeier, a leading foe of the anticourt crusade: "If Congress can decide willy-nilly that the Supreme Court and the federal appellate courts have no appellate jurisdiction, then we have arrogated to ourselves considerable power...
Before First Monday ends, a mere 45 minutes later, Loomis has turned jurist-detective, implicated a long-time boyfriend in a major political scandal and developed something more than a good working relationship with her former foe, Justice Snow...