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...Mikhail Gorbachev and seized control of the Soviet Union? After the scheme fell apart, one conspirator drank himself into a stupor, another shot himself dead, and a third made a break for the airport -- where he was arrested with the key to his new Kremlin office still in his pocket...
...sense of the convolution, follow a dollar bill as it winds its way through the health care system. As the system currently stands, companies usually pay most of their employees' health care costs. Beginning in the employer's pocket, the health care dollar moves on to one of dozens of private insurance companies. If the employee visits the hospital to receive treatment for an illness, the hospital forwards the charges to the insurance company--which pays all costs above the deductible and transfers the rest of the cost back to the patient. The hospital then pays the physicians and nurses...
Porter tallied twice, but he did it with an illegal stick. The Kirkland junior got nabbed for having an extra-deep pocket at 15:00 of the fourth quarter. Harvard collected just four more penalties in the conetst. The Crimson did not commit any during the first period but had three in the final 15 minutes of the game, including two back-to-back fouls for holding and slashing. Adelphi only converted one of the extra-man opportunities, however. HARVARD, 13-8 at Garden City, NY Adelphi 0 2 3 3 -- 8 Harvard...
...EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT KNEW IT WAS GOING TO face charges that it is in Uncle Sam's pocket. So it tried to pretend that Mahmud Abohalima asked voluntarily to go back to the U.S. In fact he was arrested by Egyptian security forces in a town near Alexandria and flown back last Wednesday to the U.S., which he had fled shortly after the Feb. 26 World Trade Center bombing. A 12-car motorcade whisked him from an upstate New York airport to Manhattan, where he was arraigned for allegedly aiding and abetting the bombing. Abohalima, a former New York City-area...
...costly mistake -- or the work of rank amateurs. By the time federal agents arrested Nidal Ayyad, 25, at his home in Maplewood, New Jersey, they had ( several pieces of evidence linking him to the first suspect seized, Mohammed Salameh, starting with the business card they found in Salameh's pocket. Although Ayyad is from Kuwait and Salameh is from Jordan, both men are of Palestinian descent and they have been friends for more than a year. One of Ayyad's brothers says they met at a mosque, though it is still not certain if he was referring to Al-Salam...