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...Clinton might have devoted days to Hamlet-like meditations over how to respond to much an insult. Not so the new Clinton, bolstered by a fresh spine from his stands over Bosnia and the budget. Such a man would not such an insult sitting down. That afternoon he sent White House spokesperson Mike McCurry to inform the sports reporters in the White House press corps that "The President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose...
...cucumbers and jellyfish, not to mention an endless parade of arthropods, those spindly legged, hard-shelled ancient cousins of crabs and lobsters, spiders and flies. There are even occasional glimpses - in rock laid down not long after Erwin's Namibian sandstone - of small, ribbony swimmers with a rodlike spine that are unprepossessing progenitors of the chordate line, which leads to fish, to amphibians and eventually to humans...
...sent enough chills up B.U. coach Jack Parker's spine to cause him to attend Tuesday night's Harvard game against Boston College...
...show displayed some very talented acting in a disturbing but entertaining nonetheless-talk of friendship, marriage, and betrayal of both. It took a while for the show to get past the doldrums, but the spine-chilling ending made it all worthwhile...
...have always believed that most of the people want peace and are ready to take a risk for it." As Rabin walked toward his car after speaking, a 27-year-old law student who had been involved in illegal West Bank settlements opened fire, hitting Rabin in the spine, chest and back. "They took Rabin out on a stretcher," said one eye-witness. "He was lying on his side with a bloodstain on his chest and abdomen. His eyes were closed." Rabin, 73, died of the wounds during emergency treatment at Ichilov Hospital nearby. The Israeli Cabinet immediately gathered...