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...dangers are especially frightening for thousands of alien residents. Last autumn, militant Islamists threatened death to all foreigners who did not quit the country. "The terrorists play on people's nerves until they crack up and leave," says a member of the dwindling French community. Raymond Louzoum, who was married to a Muslim and had applied for Algerian nationality, did not want to go and so became the 27th victim. "He fitted my first pair of glasses when I was four years old," said a young woman who works in an office opposite the optician's shop, choking back tears...
...they said they had killed their parents because it was what was best for their mother, who had been cheated on by her husband. So what could the jury have made of the fact that they reloaded to shoot her point-blank in the face when she refused to quit crawling away...
...going to tell me that Hulk Hogan isn't the greatest athlete since Jim Thorpe? He has since quit, but what a legacy he leaves behind. He was strong, quick and he had charisma, sort of like a JFK on steriods in a speedo. That's how I'll remember the Great...
...School Dean Robert C. Clark, who said he spoke to Heymann the day before he announced his intention to quit, confirmed that Heymann would be returning to teach at the Law School as soon as a replacement was found for his Washington post...
...reforms designed to create a market economy in Russia. The country's most prominent advocate of free markets, Economics Minister Yegor Gaidar, had previously resigned, charging that the government was not committed to economic reform. After the Cabinet announcement, Gaidar's reformist comrade- in-arms, Boris Fyodorov, quit his post as Finance Minister and said the country's economic policy was taking a "turn back." Said Chernomyrdin: "The period of market romanticism has ended...