Word: midafternoon
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...midafternoon in a windowless room in an office building south of the San Francisco airport, and the man once known as Meathead is perspiring. His beefy hands gesticulate and then clutch the podium as he confides his life story. "Twenty years ago," he says, "I had a tough time in my life. I got divorced. I went into therapy. Now I'm doing O.K. I have three kids, a good job." Pause. "A nice suit." The audience laughs on cue, and the former Meathead plunges on. "But the early experiences I had as a child directly affected how I functioned...
...midafternoon it was all over. Never once did Ted Kaczynski acknowledge his frail, 80-year-old mother or his brother, who sat only a few feet behind him. Never once did he express regret. As he walked from the courtroom toward a lifetime in prison, he never once looked back. Connie Murray, whose husband Gilbert was killed by Kaczynski, took comfort that at least he "will never, ever kill again." David and Wanda, with the dignity they've shown throughout the proceedings, expressed their sorrow to the victims and their relief at the sentence, which David, reading from his legal...
...above, intelligence officers were listening to the microphones they had smuggled into the residence, tracking the movements of the 14 Tupac Amaru guerrillas and their 72 VIP hostages. The officers knew what to expect: by midafternoon the hostages would be in upstairs bedrooms and the rebels who were holding them prisoner would have started their regular makeshift soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army...
...MIDAFTERNOON ON NOV. 8, BILL Clinton was assured a second term as President [CAMPAIGN '96, Nov. 20]. Ironically the assurance came from an unlikely source: a new Republican named Colin Powell. All that is left of the 1996 presidential campaign now that Powell has decided not to run is the rhetoric, vitriol, insults and blame. This will be Bob Dole's last hurrah, and afterward everything will go back to being the way it was in Washington. CARLOS R. CASTILLO Miami...
...roughly 11 a.m. on April 29 to almost 8 a.m. on the 30th. Pilots flew for 10 to 15 hours straight; each trip took about 40 minutes in the air and 10 to 15 minutes on the ground loading up. Marine Captain Glynn Hodges landed at the embassy in midafternoon; his H-53 chopper was too big to perch on the roof, so it came down in the compound. "My troops couldn't believe the scene," says Hodges. "People were climbing fences. It was bedlam. We were afraid of the crowds. We had to wear gas masks, though...