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...dirt and covered with logs and sod in the middle of the Serb lines to his home every four days. It is about two miles down the steep hill past two military checkpoints, a dozen gutted homes and a file of soldiers walking in the other direction. Mikerevic is lean, with a dark mustache and hair that is turning prematurely gray. His rifle swings easily from his shoulder. At home his wife and two young girls, ages six and three, are waiting in the cramped apartment they were given by an aid organization...
Huge collages from the fair, about six feet by three feet each, lean along the back wall of the classroom. Topics include Black Men in Congress, Black Men of World War II, Black Indians, Rosa Parks' Impact on Black Americans, The Battle of Wounded Knee and the Statue of Liberty...
...seemed at times that Koresh was playing with them. His mother had hired a fancy lawyer for him, and just as the feds were deciding they had to move, Koresh was deciding that he was eager to talk. Dick DeGuerin is a renowned defender of infamous Texans, a lean, boyish-looking ex-prosecutor known among defense lawyers as "Clint Eastwood" for rescuing high-profile figures from impossible fixes. He has a gift for winning his clients' trust, and it seemed to be working with Koresh. They talked for hours inside the compound, sharing chicken a la king and apple juice...
...each experience taught him more about his craft and prepared him for Unforgiven, a lean and provocative antiwestern in which the good guys are not so swell and the bad guys are not entirely deserving of their fate. For Eastwood it was something new, garbed in familiar cowboy clothing. Only after the final gunfight does the director allow his alter ego, the actor, to indulge in a brief valedictory to the satiric excess that characterized the Eastwood of an earlier era. "Any son of a bitch who takes a shot at me," gunman William Munny bellows into the night...
...cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease to be mere money handlers and become the very organizers and arbiters of care...