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Harvard closed out regulation with two near misses. One corner shot rang off the post and a Fowler flick just barely glanced off Orpen's out-stretched stick...
...didn't have it on me but could recite the number and had other I.D. He insisted on the driver's license, so I retrieved it from the car. He compared it with the information on the form, filled in his portion of the Firearms Transaction Record and rang up the sale. As the manager walked me out, he told me that two months ago, Wal-Mart had changed its policy and now required that ammunition be sold separately...
...Olympic basketball team in Barcelona next year? Maybe he was sitting at the end of his huge dining room table, wearing a tuxedo, when a butler entered and handed him an invitation on a silver plate. Or maybe he was watching TV in his underwear when the phone rang...
Officers hurled tear gas at the protesters. Amid the smoke, sporadic gunfire rang out for 15 minutes as authorities drove back the advancing A.W.B. members. A block away whites hurled rocks at a van carrying blacks. When the vehicle lost control and toppled into the crowd, killing one extremist, enraged whites opened fire and at least four blacks were injured. Ironically, De Klerk came to Ventersdorp to seek the support of rural white conservatives, who are rapidly deserting the National Party because of his reforms...
...liver-transplant program, heard that a liver, just the right size and blood type, was suddenly available for a man who had been waiting for a transplant. The patient, severely ill but not on the verge of death, was being readied for the procedure when Busuttil's phone rang. A five-year-old girl who had previously been given a transplant had suffered a catastrophe. Her liver had stopped functioning. Busuttil had to make a decision. "I had two desperately ill patients," he says, but the choice was clear. Without an immediate transplant, "the little girl certainly would have died...