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Even more jarring was the picture of President Rudenstine that the magazine decided to portray. Rather than depicting the tanned, well-rested Rudenstine who now occupies Massachusetts Hall, Newsweek searched as hard as it could--and ultimately acquired--unflattering photos which make Rudenstine appear, to say the least, severly haggard...
Despite a plea for peace -- but no offer of surrender -- from Chechnya's president Wednesday, Russian forces launched their harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion...
...requests were collected on petitions distributed by the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BALSA) and the Civil Liberties Union of Haggard (CLUE...
...recipient of these sentiments -- and of a righteous punch from our hero in the film's most ungainly scene -- is the Sun's female managing editor, played by Glenn Close in a haggard, predatory tone, as if stranded between Fatal Attraction and Sunset Blvd. One can detect here the fine misogyny of screenwriter David Koepp, who had Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn destroy themselves for vanity's sake in Death Becomes Her. (Koepp wrote The Paper with his brother Stephen, a TIME senior editor...
...said a well-placed foreign observer. As a more positive incentive, "we are offering Croatia the world if they will reverse their policy," said a Western diplomat in Zagreb: money for economic reconstruction and refugee resettlement, loans from the World Bank and associate membership in the European Union. Tudjman, haggard and solemn, appeared on television last week to announce that he backed a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...