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...takes the reader only a few pages to realize that Ripley has had to / forfeit the novelist's right to create her own characters. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara sprang from everything Mitchell knew and felt about a time that was still fresh in her region's memory. Ripley's self-imposed handicap shows in the dialogue. Mitchell gave her sardonic hero the best lines, hard- bitten and vivid in the Raymond Chandler style. "I've seen eyes like yours above a dueling pistol," he says to Scarlett. "They evoke no ardor in the male breast." Ripley's Rhett...
Despite the Tampa convictions, which required B.C.C.I. to forfeit $15 million of its money-laundering profits, Blum and former customs commissioner William von Raab elaborated on their earlier descriptions of the Justice Department's Florida case as a law-enforcement debacle. "I was personally | infuriated," Blum said. He argued that the plea bargain gave B.C.C.I. immunity from future prosecutions based on evidence in the case -- a charge that Justice disputes. Von Raab, sporting a yellow handkerchief that drooped flower-like from his breast pocket, called the settlement "a shameless agreement" and "a disaster in terms of the punishment that should...
Shortly after the Iraqi officers left the Plaza, Khalid moved 32 women to a nearby mosque and determined that he would rather forfeit his life than aid in the planned rape. Sometime before morning, however, Colonel Rida and thousands of other Iraqi troops pulled out of the city. Over the next 24 hours, many of the retreating soldiers (and an undetermined number of Kuwaiti hostages accompanying them) died as allied aircraft bombed the highway that led back to Iraq. "We can only pray that Rida was one of them," says Khalid...
...lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were prodded out of cages into their gunsights. State and federal agents raided the multimillion-dollar operation and arrested Bartholomew. His trial ended last week in a plea bargain; he will spend six months in jail, do 400 hours of community service and forfeit his "preserve" to the state. County district attorney Theresa McGehee says, "I think we've made our statement: we as a society are not going to tolerate this...
Last Tuesday, an Ivy committee ruled that Harvard would have to forfeit its win against Brown. Coupled with the Crimson's loss to Yale two Saturdays ago, the Bruins would emerge as Ivy champions...