Word: linke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess where these two polar-opposite paragons teach. You got it: Dartmouth, veddy Ivy League but founded as a prep school for New Hampshire Indian lads. Their common link, besides furtive lust, is Christopher Columbus. She has been asked for an article on the quincentennial of his first voyage from her people's perspective. He is laptopping an epic poem on the great explorer. In pursuit of Columbus' lost diary, Roger and Vivian fly to Eleuthera in the Bahamas as guests of a junk-bond financier on the lam. This quasi Milken thinks Vivian knows the secret burial site...
...sentence should be overturned because the race of his white victim played a significant role in his sentencing, his claim was rejected. Presented with data demonstrating that murderers of whites are four times as likely to receive the death penalty as murderers of blacks, the court allowed that the link between a victim's race and the imposition of the death penalty was "statistically significant in the system as a whole." But, the court concluded, no petitioner could rely exclusively on such statistics to show that "he received the death sentence because, and only because, his victim was white...
...have sneaked into Taiwan for jobs. Such exchanges create opportunities for black marketeers, who have taken advantage of the new "mainland fever" sweeping the acquisitive Taiwanese. Black-market deals, particularly for pelts, can be conducted only through a series of middlemen. Each person provides an introduction to the next link in the human chain, then extracts a fee for the service. Ultimately the Taiwanese meet the Chinese on the muddy, gray waters of the Taiwan Strait. Often the pelts, along with Chinese antiques and traditional medicines, are traded by fishermen for Taiwanese electronics and consumer goods. The practice...
Beyond Fairchild's confession there is no evidence, other than a watch, to link him to the crime. Ex-Sheriff Tommie Robinson, who went on to serve as a Democratic member of Congress since 1985, denies Fairchild's claims. But 11 black men who were brought in for questioning in Pulaski County at about the same time as Fairchild gave vivid descriptions of methods used by deputies to obtain confessions. Three said they had pistols placed in their mouth. Officers pulled the trigger. The guns were not loaded, but the point was made...
Pentagon officials, while delighted with the gulf-war performance of weapons like the F-18 Hornet and the Tomahawk cruise missile, have privately concluded that some other important systems were maddeningly unreliable. Secret Navy memos disclose that shipboard communications computers, the key link to General Norman Schwarzkopf's headquarters, were dangerously slow and out of date. Crucial orders from Riyadh were transmitted to some naval vessels at pokey telex speed, often arriving in more than 20 separate pieces and taking up to six hours to be completed. (Personal computers found in many homes can transmit data 10 to 20 times...