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...state fire marshal's office disarmed both of the bombs. Police told the Globe that the explosion "would have killed anyone in the immediate vicinity...
...questions I had was whether Harvard students are cool enough to go partying right before exams," Gabay said, referring to the rhetoric former council Chair Michael P. Beys '94 used to marshal support for the original concert last week...
...hoax," claims a gay representative from the West Coast. "There are not enough beds to take care of known AIDS patients. Why identify more?" Actually, testing is cruel only in a world where captains of sinking ships do not warn passengers because the captains cannot get off. We must marshal the moral courage to tell those infected with HIV: It is truly tragic that currently we have no way to save your life, but surely you recognize your duty to try to help save the lives of others...
...Tokyo's political district. "Hosokawa did not seek the office of Prime Minister; his coalition allies asked him to take the job," recalls Kazuo Nukazawa, a managing director at Keidanren. "Unlike all the Prime Ministers before him, he has no debts to pay." Last week he showed he could marshal all the energy of his youth, without overweening rashness or inexperienced disarray. It was only a first step. But it was the step without which there would have been no others. The results should be liberating not only for himself but also for Japan...
Anyway, Arno is pursued ineptly by the Florida Mob and its bumbling parent organization in Italy, and also by his mistress Joyce and a U.S. marshal named Raylan Givens. Arno, who's 66, is thinking of trading in Joyce, who's about 40, for a younger tootsie, although maybe not; she still looks pretty good, and he hasn't decided. Straight-shooting Raylan's determined to find Arno, save Joyce from peril and foil the evildoers, and by page 256, it all works out. Always has in Leonard's quirky tales; always will...