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Many of the details of that debacle are well known: the aborted mission to rein in Aidid, the desperate efforts of several relief convoys to reach and extricate the trapped Task Force Rangers and -- above all, the capture, beating and humiliation of helicopter pilot Michael Durant. One part of the story has gone largely unreported, however: the 15-hour pitched battle that took place around the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, an extraordinary display of valor by 99 men under calamitous circumstances. TIME has been told that two of those men who gave their life to protect Durant -- Sergeant First...
Only by reducing government intervention can we rein in spiraling health care costs...
...another at anything like the present rate? When the noise of gunfire stopped on the Long Island Rail Road last week, it was the sound of that question that rose in its place. It brought other pressing questions with it. How far do we go? What formula can rein in guns while permitting their legitimate use? And how much will gun control reduce the killing...
Mais non, says Montignac, who doesn't believe in worrying about calories. "Conventional low-calorie diets are among the great scientific swindles of the 20th century," he maintains. "We should sweep away scruples and allow our epicurean instincts full rein." Susan Powter would surely throw down her barbells, but such appealing heresy has made Montignac Europe's newest diet guru. His book Je Mange, Donc Je Maigris! -- I Eat, Therefore I Slim -- dominated France's best-seller lists for an unprecedented 106 weeks, selling 1.1 million copies and leading to translations in five other European countries and Japan...
When it would be easy to circle the wagons and wait for the NCAA posse's judgement, the hard way out proves to be the only admirable one, and it's nice to see university officials rein in a big-time sports program that looks to be getting away...