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...cultists screamed obscenities and their children cried, police used a bulldozer to knock down a wooden barricade and a crane to knock out windows. Firemen pumped streams of water through a cellar window, sending rats, dogs and people scurrying to safety. Suddenly, shots rang out. Police lobbed tear gas and smoke bombs into the house. After 45 minutes, the MOVE members -twelve adults and eleven children-stumbled out. The toll: one policeman dead; seven policemen, five firemen, three MOVE members and three bystanders wounded...
...many more besides will be on the minds of the Cardinals in conclave, but their overwhelming preoccupation will, of course, be with the secrecy-shrouded, ritual-encrusted process of choosing the next Vicar of Jesus Christ. According to one frequently heard scenario, the right and the left will knock each other off and a moderate will emerge as the winner?an Italian moderate. The trouble with that scenario is that two clearly defined blocs no longer exist. Paul made the Sacred College in his own image, and he shunned the extremes. The candidates form a mass of middle-readers with...
...playing so high they were reportedly considered as extras in Star Wars II, now look much more reminiscent of The Bad News Bears--that monstrous 10-game division lead has shrunk to a mere five (pending the results of tonight's quasi-double-header in New York, which could knock it down to three-and-a-half), and the whole team has been hitting pretty much like Tatum O'Neal. And the club certainly didn't help the cause by signing on starter Andy Hassler, the not-so-proud owner of the A.L. for consecutive losses for a pitcher...
...attention to the smallest details, Heitz advises. He prowls his winery like a top sergeant making a bed check, looking, listening, sniffing. "You can sense if something is wrong," he testifies. "Do you hear a knock or a rattle? Maybe an air conditioner has to be fixed. You need good ears." And, he continues, "people say that the machinery is automatic. Nothing is automatic...
...begins: people display an incredible array of items pulled from closets, attics, gardens, in-laws and, only occasionally, outlaws. With an eye for hot merchandise, police sometimes patrol the bigger markets, but the difficulty of making positive identifications means that there is often little they can do to knock down any fences...