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Almost like a tornado, Andrew cut a 20-to-35-mile swath south of Miami that leveled entire city blocks and left residents without electricity, phones, drinkable water, sewage treatment, food or shelter. Armed troops patrolled the streets to stop looters, some of whom brought in rental trucks to haul away their booty. The response by state and federal government was slow and disjointed. But by week's end President Bush had ordered 14,400 troops into the disaster area with mobile kitchens, tents, electrical generators, water and blankets. Now hundreds of thousands of the newly homeless -- some sleeping...
...case of literal and utter anarchy, does not: Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia has aided aggression against Bosnia's Muslims and Croats every step of the way in the interest of carving out a Greater Serbia. The Yugoslav breakup has spawned atrocities on all sides, but over the long haul this war, like Iraq's swallowing of Kuwait, is the fault of one big bully...
Energetic, full of juice, brilliant in flashes but in the long haul a most uneven talent, George Bellows died of appendicitis in 1925 at the age of 42 with a reputation among Americans that was not going to survive...
...teeming Atlantic and bringing them up laden with cod. For more than 400 years the hardy Newfoundlanders who settled "the Rock" competed vigorously with Europeans in the rich fishery that developed. Too vigorously: the cod supply has been so depleted that Canadian fishermen were forced last week to haul in their nets, traps and boats along the entire northeastern coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to begin a two-year total ban on fishing for northern cod, a $700 million business...
...Students wanted full need-blind admissions," he says. "It is a goal over the long haul, but not in the foreseeable future...