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According to Charles Hsu '96, the protestors were not only demanding justice for the death of the vendor but were also protesting the harsh and corrupt regime...
...troops may have been exposed to sarin, a highly toxic gas, the CIA has kept its advance warning about the chemical weapons in the Kamisiyah storage site under tight wraps since 1991. "It is, in my judgement, a cover-up of major proportions," fumed Senator Jay Rockefeller, a harsh critic of the military's reluctance to look into veterans' complaints. The Pentagon terms the incident a "missed opportunity...
...United employees completed a purchase of 55% of the company. In exchange for their ownership stake, they made concessions totaling $4.8 billion. (Pilots as a group own 25% of the company.) They also gave up their right to strike. Yet United's pilots, embittered by what they feel was harsh and callous treatment of them by their management during labor talks, can in some sense create even more trouble. "We are owners, and we have serious clout," says Captain Kevin Dohm, a 737 pilot from Chicago. "If need be, we will force the issue and start getting rid of management...
...might have been dead for a minute or two. Children during grand mal attacks seem possessed; in the New Testament, epilepsy is referred to as a "demon." So the mother of an epileptic boy first looks at doctors as exorcists. But as she sees them prescribe a series of harsh medications, each creating side effects that the next is supposed to treat, she wonders if they aren't sadists--and if they know of a potential cure that they smugly refuse to recommend...
...word that the President is on the mend. As if to reinforce that perception, Yeltsin announced on Friday that he was opposed to any "hasty" changes in the constitution. He also made a couple of appearances at the Kremlin but they served only to underscore the harsh fact that Yeltsin's primary task these days is simply to keep himself upright and ticking. If he can manage that, the Kremlin may be able to stave off an early election and avoid succumbing to the impulse to tamper with an already flawed constitution...