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...ardent devotee of the virtues of mesquite [March 1]. The aroma given off by this burning shrub is a little scent of heaven. If you have never had a steak char-broiled over an open mesquite fire, you haven't lived. And if you have never had soup made from the bones of that broiled steak, you really haven't lived...
...drama starring National Security Adviser Richard Allen is dragging into its fourth week, and the fact that it lasted so long without fading away was becoming its most important feature. Nothing has been proved. Nothing has been disproved. But a whiff of impropriety hangs in the air. That troublesome scent was enough to force Allen out, at least temporarily: on Sunday Allen announced he was taking an "administrative leave" from his job, effective immediately, for the duration of the Justice Department's investigation of the affair. "I fully expect to resume my duties," Allen said...
...heady scent of last Saturday's Ivy Championship fresh in their noses, the women's soccer team kicks off AIAW regional competition today with a first round contest against visiting Boston College...
...background, trying to figure out where he would go next. Five hours after he fled the scene of the crime, Abbott brazenly kept a brunch date at the apartment of a writer friend. Majeski missed him there by a few hours, but he had picked up the scent. "The way the writer described Abbott coming in and chatting on about his plans for writing more books and taking a place in the literary world of New York told me two things I hadn't known. Abbott was scared that he had already lost his literary place...
...authorities did not pick up Boyce's scent until a sighting in Washington State in late July. They soon focused on the remote Olympic Peninsula. One reason: it is a habitat of falcons, Boyce's passion since childhood and the source of his nickname in a bestselling book about his spy exploits. FBI agents also suspected that Boyce was involved in a series of bank robberies in the Pacific Northwest. A suspicious title switch on a boat license turned up the name Anthony E. Lester, of Beaver, a small town 50 miles west of Port Angeles. The photograph...