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...Lane froze. "It was really a horrible moment," he says. "I just sat there and thought, well, here's the flip side...
...husband could stop worrying about the Clintons. She sat down across from Hillary at her desk, thinking how she might brighten up the office if it was hers, as Hillary read the proposed transfer of ownership. "What is this?" Hillary demanded, her tone cold. Susan's smile froze...
...crew, which included Serb overseers, froze in place and then left at once, he says. "We pretended that we had not seen anything," he explains, because Serb authorities "could have killed us for that." Even later, and among themselves, the men who were under forced labor carefully avoided mention of the sighting. "You never knew if one of the others would tell it to the Serbs," the engineer remarks. "We were all paralyzed by fear." But the witness insists, "It's a fact that they were burying people there." The multicolored clothes suggested dead civilians...
...speeches he talks about the vital need for stability, which in China is a euphemism for rigid political control. Last month his government pushed ahead with its own selection of a new Panchen Lama for Tibet, the second highest religious leader in that oppressed province. Relations with Taiwan froze last summer after Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui visited the U.S.; China responded by conducting provocative military exercises near Taiwan. China last month again threatened to use force should Taiwan opt for independence. Last week Beijing announced the names of the 150 people who will make up the Preparatory Committee...
Military psychologist Dan Landis says, "There are all kinds of macho traditions that have grown up at the Citadel whose rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...