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...actual settlement is still likely to be a long one. Even as the diplomats put the final touches on their agreement, NATO warplanes were blasting Serb military targets in Bosnia for the second straight week. And the principles the parties were able to agree on in Switzerland could sink under the weight of the many issues on which they disagree...
...also a selling point. Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi, a publishing company whose executives were impressed enough to sink $20 million into the enterprise. Since then, George has been stirring the same sort of buzz among journalists that Waterworld generated in Hollywood: a golden boy--maybe not the brightest fellow in town--seemed to be in way over his head on a slightly nutty project, and a delicious disaster was probably in the offing...
Unlike previous years, where Harvard has carved out an early lead in the first 20 strokes and then never looked back, Yale refused to sink. Even though Harvard established its familiar quick advantage, the Elis stuck to the Crimson for nearly three miles before Harvard gained open water with a decisive move...
...finally, he resorted to calling a reporter "obnoxious." The next morning, in a radio interview, he suggested that Manning is politically motivated. "I knew...if we're going to have a revolution to replace the welfare state, we better expect those people who love it to throw the kitchen sink...
Jurors were stunned by a videotaped re-enactment of the sinking of Smith's car, shot by a camera mounted inside, from the drowning toddlers' point of view. "The camera had been mounted in the back, situated so that it would be between the two baby seats," Towle says. "The car took 5 minutes 52 seconds to sink. And 2 minutes and 10 or 11 seconds into it, you saw the water. It was agonizingly slow. And then a bubble floats up and you begin to see the water seep in -- it had a greenish brown tinge -- until the entire...