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...story, it turns out, is all about sacrifice. She may have escaped her marriage in search of love, but there was no escaping us. Her grip on our imagination was too firm, the bounty on her head too high. By choosing to continue with her duties, to go where she was needed and drag the spotlight with her, she gave up any chance of ever driving quietly through Paris on an August night...
...presidential stroke. "The President has a decent swing. If he had more time to practice, it would be better," says Harmon. "I'm sure his swing is going to be better in four years." CBS golf commentator Gary McCord offers a similar critique to the First Golfer: strengthen your grip, swing more outside and keep your left heel down in the backswing. "Nureyev didn't get on his toes this much," says McCord. Sometimes, you see, a golf coach has to give tough love. If Clinton could just keep that heel down, McCord adds, "it would stop his Big Bubba...
...suspect ended up wrestling on the ground; previous training methods had presumed upright resistance. The revised training curriculum emphasizes ground fighting, joint locks and dodging punches and kicks. An officer's initial attempt to grasp a suspect's arm has been replaced with the more flexible "C grip," a loose grab that does not tend to provoke an angry response. They learn to wait for backup so they can use "team takedowns" to apprehend a suspect more easily. Recruits are taught how to "talk someone into jail," says Sandy Jo MacArthur, the department's human-relations sergeant...
...Bosnian Serb president Biljana Plavsic has "sold her soul to the devil" by co-operating with the men in blue berets. And with the former president and indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic waiting in the wings, this is not the best time for Plavsic to be losing her grip on power...
Then one day he didn't come. "Where is my mocha?" grumbled one electrician and grip after another, intimidating tools dangling off their belts. The drastic announcement was made. In a cost-cutting measure, the Mocha Man would come only three times a week. The crew, faced with a question of survival, took matters into their own hands...