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...event's organizers tout as a "gang of crazy convict cowboys." Among them: all-around runner-up Johnny Brooks, right, who owes his title to skillful bull riding and a botched grocery-store robbery; and Terry Hawkins, a former butcher-shop employee who killed his supervisor with a hammer and went on to win this year's "Guts & Glory," an event in which contestants try to remove a poker chip taped to the forehead of an angry bull...
...concession to Moscow's touchiness about being locked out of a region where it has historic ties, Russian troops may participate as well, although their role has yet to be determined. "We are proposing a powerful force," said Perry. "If attacked by anyone, it will bring a large hammer down on them. It will be the biggest, the toughest and the meanest dog in town." In keeping with the cost of Pentagon hardware, the American contribution to the price tag on this hammer will come to about $1.5 billion...
...year, which begins this week, the President and the Republican congressional leadership reached a temporary truce. A compromise stopgap spending measure will fund government agencies at reduced levels until Nov. 13. It remains to be seen whether the extension will prove long enough for the President and Congress to hammer out their differences. Meanwhile, an unexpectedly fierce House g.o.p. rebellion defeated final versions of defense and environmental spending bills...
Siegel challenged students to take action. During the speech. Jessica Hammer '99 volunteered to organize a shipment of clothing to Bosnia...
...spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a pair of tweezers. But not quickly enough. Four days later, Quinn fell violently ill. "I had a fever of 102 degrees, and it felt like a hammer was banging in my head," he recalls. "I couldn't keep my head up, but I couldn't lie down either because my back was killing...