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Clustered around a table in a cramped second-floor room in the Capitol, the seven Senators -- three Republicans and four Democrats -- set out to piece together a proposal that would get as close to the President's commitment to guarantee insurance coverage for all Americans and still garner enough votes to pass through the committee and onto the Senate floor. After their staffs labored most of last Thursday night and sorted through disagreements that several times threatened to torpedo the process, the group emerged Friday with only New Jersey Democrat Bill Bradley expressing some displeasure with the results. Relying...
...heavily armed police officers, clad in black combat fatigues, smashed into the second-floor Boston apartment in search of guns and coke. They found only a frail 75-year-old man, who retreated into a bedroom. They ran him down and handcuffed him. The old man, a retired Methodist minister who read his Bible daily and abhorred violence, vomited and suffered a heart attack -- a fatal one. He was literally scared to death...
...moved to Boston with his wife to be near their only child, who was studying in the area. On the afternoon of March 25, he was at home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With a "no- knock" warrant, they burst into the home of the Rev. Accelynne Williams, killing him with fright. Had the cops checked their records, they would have learned that a drug warrant issued last September targeted an apartment on the third floor...
...lowered onto a second-floor landing but I couldn't see much," medal recipient DeFrancesco told The Crimson last October. "So I called for a flashlight and I could make out two figures moving in the smoke. I called to them and picked them up and passed them out to the window...
...time talking about how to hit the floor and hide under a desk. Have we gone mad?" Teachers are also afraid: two weeks ago, at the suburban Wauwatosa West High School, a former student named Leonard McDowell, 21, allegedly shot associate principal Dale Breitlow, 46, three times in a second-floor hallway with a .44-cal. Taurus revolver, killing...