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...games in 1993, running his career record total to 401. He was 37 years old, he was carrying 270 pounds on his 6 ft. 6 in. frame, and his fastball was no longer overpowering. All that is still true, but in this year of fallen closers -- Rod Beck, Rob Dibble, Bryan Harvey, Duane Ward and John Wetteland have all spent time on the disabled list -- Smith has been the game's best stopper, saving 12 games in 12 tries without allowing a run in 10 2/3 innings through Sunday. He had a save in 12 of his team's first...
...almost supernatural speed, take a choke hold on the best-seller lists, and are transformed into movies that typically make a quick blitz at the box office before settling into a long, lucrative life on the video shelves. For an impressive array of filmmakers, from Brian De Palma to Rob Reiner, King has made an ideal collaborator: he provides the sprawling, imaginative raw material; they bring the cinematic compression and sometimes (as in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining) the resonance...
...mutates into a more tepid apocalyptic soap opera. The narrative coalesces around a few disparate survivors (who have an unexplained immunity to the flu), among them an easygoing Texan (Gary Sinise), a pregnant young woman from Maine (Molly Ringwald), a rock singer (Adam Storke) and an angelic deaf-mute (Rob Lowe). The few people left are mystically drawn into two camps: one led by a messiah- like black woman (Ruby Dee), the other by a satanic "dark man" (a leonine Jamey Sheridan...
When the Clinton Administration had quietly encouraged limited strikes on the Gorazde perimeter earlier in the week, it had several aims in mind. It was trying to rob the Serbs of another battlefield victory, inject new life into stalled peace negotiations and redeem its own recent bumbling performance, when senior officials publicly contradicted each other about the prospect of air strikes. While the bombings were technically NATO operations in response to a request to protect U.N. peacekeeping troops, in practice the attacks were a U.S. experiment: an attempt to use limited military force to end the fighting in Bosnia...
...goal, freshman Rob Lyng and senior Matt Camp continue to get the job done...