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...rule by terror," says Errol Chavez, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's San Diego office. According to testimony from former associates, Ramon often rises in the morning announcing, "I feel like killing somebody today," then satisfies the urge in ways designed to build the legend, feed the fear. Trademarks include "the Colombian necktie"--cutting an informant's throat below the chin, then pulling his tongue through the wound as he bleeds to death. Or suffocating a rival with a clear plastic bag over his head while a henchman named El Gordo (the Fat Man) bounces...
...Sharansky is undeterred. "That maintains the legend of Arafat-the-dictator as our best hope. We have to blame ourselves for this illusion, and for helping him to play this role. (Sharansky points out that 25 percent of the revenues Israel pays to the Palestinian Authority, currently suspended, are directed into an account under Arafat's personal control.) I believe that our main mistake was made in 1993, when there was an illusion that if Arafat was given enough assets, he would start using them for the benefit of his people. And that's how he would become our partner...
Lisa Kowal, co-captain Kristen Boike, and Carrie Larkworthy are the only remaining players to have played and practiced with now-legend Feaster, a guard/forward for the WNBA's Charlotte Sting. The fourth senior, co-captain and North Carolina transfer Melissa Johnson, played against Feaster in the NCAA tournament when Johnson was a Tar Heel...
...show off his work, Kyriakakis plays a recording of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. Then, via digital filtering, he drills down to specific instruments, as if microphones had been placed next to them. A digitized timpani track is stunningly realistic and intimate. Jazz legend Herbie Hancock dropped by recently to play with Kyriakakis' toys. He recorded a tune called Butterfly, in which flute notes dart about - left, right, up, down - like the insect's flight. "Stereo is too confining for my music," Hancock said. "It needs more space...
...Charley Butt is becoming a legend,” Elzinga said. “It was obviously our best race of the year. We prepared very well and our coach had us really ready...