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...government argued over how to release them, show just how coarse and ruthless a man he was. At one point he enthuses over a suggestion to recruit "eight thugs" from the Teamsters Union -- "murderers" -- to gang up on peace protesters. "They've got guys who will go in and knock their heads off," says Nixon. "Sure," adds Haldeman, "Beat the s--- out of some of these people...
...they forget to talk to one another on the ground. So the managers of the Hubble Space Telescope didn't know there may have been something wrong with the mirror's shape, and the launch officials didn't know O rings could stiffen in the cold. It is no knock on the spacemanship of the astronauts to admit that space is a difficult and dangerous place -- just on the salesmanship of the agency that put them there. NASA's strategy resembles George Bush's in the Persian Gulf: get the troops over there, and then the people will have...
First, Radcliffe has to beat B.U., and second, the Black-and-White has to knock off Princeton. The Eastern Sprints, held on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn., represent the culmination of the regular season, and a last chance for Radcliffe to prove its prowess on the East Coast...
...simplified lie detector (called an "E-meter") that was designed to measure electrical changes in the skin while subjects discussed intimate details of their past. Hubbard argued that unhappiness sprang from mental aberrations (or "engrams") caused by early traumas. Counseling sessions with the E-meter, he claimed, could knock out the engrams, cure blindness and even improve a person's intelligence and appearance...
...stories they recount in the refugee camps in the Iraqi town of Safwan are appalling. "Iraqi troops sent a tank to knock down the door of the holy shrine of Najaf," recalls Hajj Hattin. "Then they began looting all the deserted homes. They shot people at random in front of the crowds." Hajj Mohammed remembers a helicopter gunship shooting at civilians in the streets of Najaf. Iraqi soldiers "went into schools to threaten small children into giving the names of relatives they could accuse of being rebels," he says. "If the child did not answer, they shot...