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Just before 5 p.m., Reno was sufficiently encouraged to brief Clinton on the deal. By midnight the feds had put a nine-point plan on the table: Lazaro and his family would hand over Elian to the government at 3:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Miami; the family would be put up at a hotel under guard and driven the next day to Washington. (The relatives claimed they didn't want Elian to fly. Justice officials assumed someone else in the family had a fear of flying, but agreed to chauffeur them to Washington anyway.) Once in Washington...
Craig, working in his office, put the deal to Juan Miguel after midnight. Initially the father balked at the idea of living anywhere close to Lazaro, but after some calls back and forth, he agreed. But at this point the accounts diverge: federal officials say Lazaro and his kin objected to all sorts of conditions and kept wanting to add new ones. It wasn't even clear who was making the decisions. "We were never able to say Lazaro Gonzalez had agreed with anything," says an official. "It was never clear who the lead lawyer was, and that made...
...Crimson wouldn't know anything about that.) One minute you have perfectly normal roommates, and the next they've vanished to travel the world with a cappella's Krokodiloes, plan cultural fairs for the Asian American Association, the largest group on campus or dress up as stags for the midnight rituals of the Science Fiction Association...
indy surveys seen floating around dining halls this week have been collected, counted, recounted and have tallied up to shocking results. indy alumni coordinator led all comers in the race for most sexual activity in Canaday basement, as a midnight rush to the polls secured the landslide victory. but even as surveys and statistics whet our appetites for pie charts and the like, what fm really craves is a taste of just the tiniest piece of that...
...messengers. If the Greeks had e-mail, Boston would not have its marathon. Likewise, the strong-souled stoicism of our present day couriers, who "come rain or snow or sleet or hail," is becoming obsolete, only to be replaced with a decidedly unheroic form of communication. The midnight e-mail of Paul Revere is not the stuff of epic poetry...