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...killer didn't stick to the plan. When the shooting was over, both Stahl and Oppy were dead. Then the killer left--no witnesses, no clues, not even an empty shell casing on the ground. Just a middle-aged doctor and his optometrist wife lying in their car for more than an hour before a local security guard found them in their big sleep...
...Neve's family-run nursery in Petaluma, Calif., hasn't exactly been blooming lately. Thanks to soaring natural-gas prices, Neve was going to have to shell out more than $160,000 in December to keep his rose plants warm, at least five times as much as he spent a year ago; instead, he turned off his heaters and watched the temperature in his 360-sq.-ft. greenhouse drop as low as 40[degrees], which has left his roses in as sorry shape as his shrinking bottom line. Then late last week Neve, like so many Californians, got another nasty...
...could spend $250,000 to get this type of promotion for the Mavs," he said. "Tons of people will buy merchandise, and more will come to the games--just like the last time I was fined." This is the fourth time this season Cuban has had to shell out for bad behavior, a total tab of $295,000, not counting the cleaning bill after Rodman left...
...pickups with rear-mounted antiaircraft and antitank guns--in the city. Afrah, however, scoffs at the notion that warlord power is slipping. "This is our business," he says, as he points out the features of his battle wagons with a long thin stick tipped with a small-caliber bullet shell...
...Appearing before the press Friday afternoon, Daschle called the plan "if not miraculous, then at the very least historic." Lott was less enthusiastic, but agreed the deal "is a reasonable one, with a serious dose of reality." That may be reference to the shell shock Senate observers reportedly saw on Republicans' faces earlier this week when the words "majority leader" publicly preceded Daschle's name for the first time...