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While the details are disputed, this much is plain: something grim and unconscionable happened in the Azerbaijani town of Khojaly two weeks ago. So far, some 200 dead Azerbaijanis, many of them mutilated, have been transported out of the town tucked inside the Armenian-dominated enclave of Nagorno- Karabakh for burial in neighboring Azerbaijan. The total number of dead -- the Azerbaijanis claim 1,324 civilians were slaughtered, most of them women and children -- is unknown. But the facile explanation offered by the attacking Armenians, who insist that no innocents were deliberately killed, is hardly convincing...
...Plain and simple, the Crimson must quickly dispose of the pesky Bulldogs and then push on to meet the season's biggest challenge--Brown...
When he's not freewheeling, Crews is just plain sloppy. Set for no apparent reason in the mid-'50s, the novel has an unsettling contemporary feel that makes every detail seem anachronistic. The prose, taut and terrifying early on when sex is a threat and violence a seduction, goes limp once Sarah and Pete embark on an apple-pie romance. Even in the fun house of Southern gothic, losing control of the fine tuning is a mistake...
...development." On this, Tsongas is just dead wrong. Even the American Bar Association's antitrust contingent, which is heavy with attorneys who represent manufacturing clients, and which therefore supports the fewest obstacles to unfettered business enterprise, has concluded that the law is fine as it stands. "He's just plain misinformed," says Stephen Axinn, one of the nation's leading antitrust lawyers. "Since 1984 there have been virtually no impediments to R. and D. joint ventures. What's more, the current state of play is good public policy. A wholesale wiping out of the review process for prospective joint ventures...
...forty, drinking a cup of coffee, and two young men working at the movie house as well. These photographs surprise me. I expected only the wrinkled, leathery man in overalls, smiling a soft, heartland smile, or the heavy boy wearing a plain white T-shirt and think black sideburns, who perhaps works in his family's grocery store...