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...valley in eastern Bosnia, American Special Forces troops with blackened faces silently slip out of a tree line to point laser beams at Serbian artillery pieces, ammunition stores and fuel dumps. The F/A-18 Hornet and A-6 Intruder aircraft from the carriers roar in, lock on to the laser spots and send their bombs streaking toward the targets...
WITH VICTORY IN THE WAR ON DRUGS NOWHERE IN sight and prison populations bulging, the 1980s' lock-'em-up approach to drug crimes has come under increasing attack. Now Attorney General Janet Reno says she too wants to reconsider the harsh mandatory sentences legislated by drug-war hawks during the Reagan-Bush era. Reno announced a sweeping review of federal drug- punishment policies to determine if packing prisons with small-time offenders -- say, sentencing a 19-year-old courier to five years for transporting as little as five grams of crack -- makes sense or justice...
Rooney said the suspects broke a lock on the boat's motor, allowing the pair to move the boat into the Charles...
...Ovitz and his agency increasingly forge alliances that cross conventional boundaries, the sense of a quasi-monopolistic old-boy lock on the industry becomes greater. Ovitz worked for Matsushita in its acquisition of MCA, and he also negotiated pay packages with the Japanese on behalf of the MCA executives -- with whom he now regularly strikes deals for his filmmaker clients. CAA represented Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing when they worked together until a few years ago as independent producers; now they run Paramount, against whom CAA continually negotiates deals. CAA is also a regular bargainer with 20th Century Fox, which...
This year is no different. On the mound, the Eli pitchers boast an impressive 2.87 team ERA. Yale's four aces--freshman Jason Bohannon (28.2 IP, 1.57 ERA), junior Keith Pelatowski (37.1 IP, 2.17 ERA), sophomore Dan Lock (36.2 IP, 3.44 ERA) and freshman Adam Doherty (28.1 IP, 4.13 ERA)--have limited opponents to a combined .241 batting average...