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...managed to pull it off--with the U.N.'s help--when the band, fulfilling a promise made by lead singer and honorary Bosnian citizen BONO, staged a full PopMart concert in the city, which doesn't even have running water 24 hours a day. "We offered them a scratch gig, a benefit concert, and they didn't want that. They wanted PopMart," says Bono. "They've a mad sense of humor." The concert didn't go quite as planned, though, because Bono lost his voice. "I told the crowd my voice was weak and they'd better have one," says...
...completely by students, there are a number of problems with it. First, there is no continuity from one year to the next. No one in the Administration has ever made up a list of things that must be done every year. Each fall, Transfer Links must start from scratch...
...where the biggest growth lies," says TIME San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson. "Intel has made the overseas market its number one target, with half their sales coming from outside the United States." The thinking behind the export drive is that since most foreign customers are starting from scratch rather than buying upgrades, why leave yesterday's models to languish on American shelves when they can be flogged overseas...
...last couple of years, we've had to fight, scratch and claw for 16-play drives to get a touchdown," Murphy said. "Now... I wouldn't say we're a quick-strike offense, but we're more capable of being that than we have in the past...
...Scratch one leading candidate. Budget Director FRANKLIN RAINES, who won many fans during his handling of the budget negotiations and who might have given Clinton the distinction of appointing the first black to the post, has let it be known to Bowles and others that he is not interested. Raines maintains that he wants more time with his three young daughters, though others speculate his real interest is in becoming Treasury Secretary, should Robert Rubin vacate that...