Word: raggedness
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KINSHASA, Zaire: Following a Thursday evening meeting in which his top generals said they could no longer protect him or Kinshasa from Laurent Kabila's advancing rebel army, President Mobutu Sese Seko quietly gave up power and fled the capital Friday morning. After 32 years as the head of a...
Suddenly, the country's most infamous unsolved murder case seemed to be on the move last week. John and Patricia Ramsey finally submitted to police interrogation (she for 6 1/2 hours, he for 2). Then, as if they felt the public had to be served, they held a press conference...
Krakauer clicked the traditional victory snapshots and started back down the mountain. But Into Thin Air, his fascinating and troubling account of the climb (Villard; 293 pages; $24.95), is no chronicle of triumph. He was in ragged physical shape. A wracking cough had torn loose chest cartilage; his body had...
John J. Applebaum '97 has just turned in his applications for legal consulting and investment banking. His advice? "Start early, dump your papers, don't go to classes, forget your thesis and double-check your resumes," he says. "I haven't done this. My apps are ragged."
At the G.O.P. convention in San Diego, Dole knew his campaign was ragged. Staff members were at war with one another. Sipple and Murphy had been cut out by Reed. On Tuesday, Aug. 13, Dole invited the admen up to his 33rd-floor suite.